Olympics Day or Olympism
1775.- Cartagena's paw a squadron prepared by King Carlos III to punish the Berber piracy of Algiers.
1809.- With the title of Council of Spain and the Indies, the Councils of Castile, Indies, Military Orders and Treasury are consolidated.
1830.- Creation of the Royal Music Conservatory of Madrid at the initiative of Queen María Cristina de Borbón.
1894.- Delegates from thirteen countries, including Spain, meeting in Paris at the initiative of Pierre de Coubertin, decide on the restoration of the Olympic Games of the modern era.
1912.- A bridge collapses in the Niagara Falls and 47 people die.
1931.- The American pilot Willy Post takes the first flight around the world by plane. It took 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes.
1943.- World War II: the Soviets begin the summer offensive.
1968.- 73 people die in Buenos Aires and more than 100 are injured when a panic breaks out in a football match.
- The 329 occupants of an Air India Boeing die when they fall to the Atlantic Ocean, near the coast of Ireland, due to the explosion of a bomb.
2003.- The WHO announces that Hong Kong has controlled the epidemic of Acute and Severe Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which caused the death of 296 people in the British excolonia.
2013.- Snowden flies from Hong Kong to Moscow.
2016.-The United Kingdom decides to leave the EU after being supported by 52% of the population in a historic referendum.
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