On a September 4, but in 1970, the Unidad Popular, led by Salvador Allende, wins the elections in Chile.
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OTHER ANNIVERSARIES
1535.- Turkish troops of Suleiman II sack Mahón (Balearic Islands) and the besieged hand over the city to the pirate Haradín, known as ‘Barbarossa’.
1781.- The Spanish found the city of Los Angeles.
1870.- Proclamation of the Third French Republic after the fall of Napoleon III.
1888.- The American George Eastman presents a camera that, instead of glass plates, uses a roll of film. On the same day, he registers the Kodak brand.
1933.- Coup d’état in Cuba: Fulgencio Batista leads the “Sergeants’ Revolt” in Havana to depose the provisional president of the country, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada.
1936.- Largo Caballero forms a government in Spain with socialist and communist ministers, after the resignation of José Giral‘s cabinet, a month and a half after the military uprising.
1948.- Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates in favor of her daughter Juliana.
1982.- China officially abandons Maoism at the Chinese Communist Congress.
1986.- Yasser Arafat accepts UN resolution 242, which implies his implicit recognition of the right to exist of the State of Israel.
1987.- The Arias Department Stores in Madrid are destroyed by a fire and 10 firefighters die.
1990.- First meeting of the prime ministers of the two Koreas, Yong Hyong Muk (north) and Kang Young Hoon (south) after the division of the Asian peninsula 45 years ago.
1998.- The American company Google is born.
2016.- Pope Francis proclaims Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint, 9 years after her death and after the fastest canonization process in the modern history of the Church.
2018.- Amazon becomes the second American company to reach a stock market valuation of one trillion dollars, an exclusive club previously only belonging to Apple.
2019.- Google fined a record $170 million for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
2020.- Spanish director and screenwriter Isabel Coixet, National Film Award.
2022.- Pope Francis proclaims John Paul I blessed, the pontiff who died after only 33 days of pontificate, and whose death was the subject of numerous theories.
2025.- The Argentine Parliament overturns the veto of President Javier Milei to a law declaring an emergency in disability, an unprecedented event in the country in 22 years.
BIRTHS
1768.- Francois-René Chateaubriand, French writer and politician.
1895.- Melchor Fernández Almagro, Spanish historian.
1908.- Richard Wright, American writer.
1935.- Juan García Ripollés, Spanish visual artist, painter, and sculptor.
1937.- Dawn Fraser, Olympic swimmer.
1942.- Fernando García de Cortázar, Spanish historian.
1951.- Rosa León, Spanish singer-songwriter.
1981.- Beyoncé, American singer.
1985.- Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer.
DEATHS
1963.- Robert Schuman, French politician, one of the founders of the Common Market.
1965.- Albert Schweitzer, French theologian and missionary, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
1989.- Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist.
1997.- Aldo Rossi, Italian architect.
2006.- Giacinto Facchetti, former Italian footballer and president of Inter Milan.
2011.- Lalla Aicha, Moroccan princess, daughter of King Mohammed V.
2019.- Blanca Fernández-Ochoa, Spanish Olympic skier.
2022.- Francisco Ariztía, Chilean-Portuguese painter.
2025.- Giorgio Armani, Italian designer.
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