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Historic moments from December 1 to 15
Walt Disney’s birth, Mozart’s death, Publicist’s Day and various memorable events occurred on these important dates.
January 1st
‘New Year’s celebration’. It is commemorated on this date in the Gregorian calendar, established by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.
December 1st
1988: The WHO establishes the ‘World Day of the fight against AIDS’, in memory of the first case that occurred on December 1, 1988
December 2nd
2006: the ‘Chicamocha National Park’ is inaugurated in Colombia.
December 3rd
World Day of Persons with Disabilities.
1979: The first edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Cuba, is inaugurated.
December 4th
The ‘Day of the Publicist’ is commemorated in Colombia.
1791: publication of the first Sunday in history, called ‘The Observer’.
December 5th
1919: ‘Scadta’ is founded in Colombia, the first airline in America. Its current name is ‘Avianca’.
1791 – Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies. (No. 1756).
1901: Cartoonist and filmmaker Walt Disney, founder of The Walt Disney Company, is born. (d. 1966).
December 6th
1877: ‘Thomas Alva Edison’, makes ‘first recording of a human voice on the phonograph’.
December 7th and 8th
Day of the candles in Colombia, is celebrated as the opening to the day of the Immaculate Conception and marks the beginning of the Christmas holidays.
December 9th
1990: elections are held for the ‘National Constituent Assembly’, with the purpose of reforming the ‘Political Constitution of Colombia’.
December 10th
1945: Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poetess receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1948: the UN approves the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris.
December 11th
1946: UNICEF – ‘United Nations Children’s Fund’ is created.
December 12th
1325: the Aztecs found ‘Tenochtitlan’ in Mexico.
1904: ‘José de Echegaray’ obtains the first ‘Nobel Prize for Literature’ awarded to a Spanish playwright.
December 13th
1962: NASA launches Relay 1, the first communications repeater satellite.
December 14th
1570: Ocaña is founded, in Norte de Santander, Colombia.
1927: the Spanish company ‘Iberia’ makes its first commercial flight, from Carabanchel to Barcelona.
December 15th
1891: ‘James Naismith’, American physical education teacher creates the ‘basketball’.
Article by:
Jackeline Gonzalez L.
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