HISTORIA
Un día como hoy Septiembre 1-7 (semana 36)
September 1, 2024 - September 7, 2024 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye la invasión alemana de Polonia, la derrota de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra por César Augusto, la crisis de rehenes en una escuela rusa en Beslán, el puente autopista Forth Road en Escocia y el impuesto a las barbas ordenado por el zar Pedro el Grande de Rusia. También, Anastasia, la más joven de las hijas del zar de Rusia Nicolás II, y el muralista mexicano José Clemente Orozco.
September 1, 1939: Germany invaded Poland, heralding the start of World War Two. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later
September 2, -31: Augustus Caesar defeated the naval forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, the victory making Augustus the master of the Roman world
September 3, 2004: Russia’s school hostage crisis in Beslan ended tragically when 330 people, over half of them children, died in bomb explosions or fierce gunbattles
September 4, 1964: The Forth Road Bridge in Scotland, with a centre span of 3,300ft (1,006m), was opened, connecting the capital city of Edinburgh with Fife to the north
September 5, 1698: Tsar Peter the Great of Russia imposed a tax on beards as part of an effort to modernise Russian society along western European models
September 6, 1994: It was confirmed that Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II, died with her family in 1918 despite years of speculation that she survived
September 7, 1949: Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco died. One of the greatest mural painters of the 20th century, his works adorn many buildings in Mexico and the United States