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Un día como hoy Diciembre 8-14 (semana 50) infographic
Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana.
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Un día como hoy Diciembre 8-14 (semana 50)

December 8, 2024 - December 14, 2024 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluyeel Puente de Suspensión Clifton en Bristol, a la actriz británica ganadora del Oscar Judi Dench, el primer vuelo de Inglaterra a Australia, el primer avistamiento registrado de una aurora boreal en Estados Unidos, al compositor Ludwig van Beethoven, una importante gasoducto de Asia Central a China y el viaducto Millau - el puente más alto del mundo.

December 8, 1864: The Clifton Suspension Bridge, one of the world’s oldest surviving iron suspension bridges, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was opened in Bristol, England

December 9, 1934: Oscar-winning British actress Judi Dench was born. A star of stage and screen for 70 years, she reached mass audiences as spy chief M in seven James Bond films

December 10, 1919: Australian aviators Ross and Keith Smith completed the first flight from England to Australia in their Vickers Vimy biplane, a converted WWI bomber

December 11, 1719: The first recorded sighting in the United States of the aurora borealis occurred in New England. The oldest known auroral citing was written in China in 2600BCE

December 12, 1792: Ludwig van Beethoven, aged 22 and newly arrived in Vienna, noted in his diary he had 15 ducats, enough for his first music lesson with Franz Joseph Haydn

December 13, 2009: The presidents of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China inaugurated a landmark pipeline to transport natural gas from Central Asia to China

December 14, 2004: The Millau viaduct, the world’s tallest bridge, opened in southern France. The soaring, 343m-high structure spans the Tarn valley in the Massif Central mountains

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PUBLISHED: 03/12/2024; DESIGN: Phil Bainbridge; PICTURE RESEARCH: Julie Mullins; EVENT SELECTION: Fiona Roberts and Susan Shepherd; PROOFING: Julie Mullins; TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION: Fiona Roberts;; STORY: Julie Mullins; PICTURES: Getty Images, Newscom
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