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Un día como hoy Diciembre 22-28 (semana 52) infographic
Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana.
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Un día como hoy en la historia Diciembre 22-28 (semana 52)

December 22, 2024 - December 28, 2024 - Los gráficos muestran cumpleaños y aniversarios en cada día de la semana. Esta semana incluye: el dictador comunista de Rumania Nicolae Ceausescu, el coche Hansom, el explorador portugués Vasco da Gama, la tregua no oficial de Navidad en la Primera Guerra Mundial, el tsunami de 2004 en el Océano Índico, la famosa Santa Sofía de Estambul y la actriz británica Maggie Smith.

December 22, 1989: Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania’s communist dictator, was ousted after 24 years of hardline rule. He and his wife were put on trial and executed within days

December 23, 1834: Englishman Joseph Hansom patented his “safety cab”. Light enough to be pulled by a single horse, the cab became popular in major cities around the globe

December 24, 1524: Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and navigator who discovered the sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, died from malaria

December 25, 1914: British and German soldiers exchanged cigarettes and played football as they took part in an unofficial Christmas truce in the trenches of World War I

December 26, 2004: A magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered devastating tsunamis which killed around 230,000 people from Indonesia to the coast of Africa

December 27, 537: Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia was inaugurated. It has been a Greek Orthodox cathedral, then a mosque, a museum, and in July 2020 it became a mosque again

December 28, 1934: British actress Maggie Smith, who died in September, was born. Latterly best known as Downton Abbey’s waspish family matriarch, she would have been 90 today

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PUBLISHED: 16/12/2024; 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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