In a April 11but from 1899, Spain gives him Puerto Rico to USA.
1713.- Signature of the first of the Peace Treaties of Utrecht: the union between Spain and France is eliminated, and England begins its colonial empire.
1814.- Napoleon abdicates in Fontainebleau in favor of his three-year-old son and later leaves for exile on the island of Elba.
1905.- Albert Einstein publishes his Theory of Relativity.
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1919.- Creation of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
1921.- First radio broadcast of a sporting event: a boxing match in the USA.
1929.- Germany denies political asylum to the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
1948.- Inauguration of the first Chilean town in Antarctica.
1952.- The film ‘Singing in the rain’ was released in the United States.
1957.- The largest particle accelerator in the world was inaugurated in Dubna (USSR).
1979.- President Idi Amin Dada is overthrown in Uganda.
1985.- Apple fires Steve Jobs, the company he had co-founded.
1986.- Halley’s Comet reaches its closest distance to Earth, in its last orbital period of 76 years.
1988.- The film “The Last Emperor”, by Bernardo Bertolucci, receives nine Oscars from the Hollywood Academy.
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2001.- A total of 43 people die and 170 are injured as a result of a human avalanche at the Ellis Park soccer stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2002.- A coup d’état in Venezuela deposes Hugo Chávez of the presidency for two days.
2006.- The supreme leader of Cosa Nostra, Bernardo Provenzano, wanted for more than forty years, is arrested in Sicily (Italy).
2008.- Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is sworn in for his second term as President of the Government.
2014.- Greece returns to the financial markets after four years of absence.
2015.- Historic meeting in Panama of the presidents of the United States, Barack Obama, and Cuba, Raúl Castro, the first between leaders of both countries in 50 years.
2023.- Italy decrees a state of immigration emergency for six months.
2024.- The European Parliament approves the reform of the EU electricity market.
1715.- Jacobo Rodríguez Pereira, Spaniard who established a method in France to teach deaf-mutes.
1755.- James Parkinson, British doctor.
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1884.- León Felipe, Spanish poet.
1919.- Raymond Carr, British historian, Hispanicist.
1981.- Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model.
1865.- Antonio Alcalá Galiano, Spanish politician.
1987.- Primo Levi, Italian writer.
2009.- Corin Tellado, Spanish writer.
2010.- Juan Manuel Gozalo, Spanish journalist, president of EFE.
2012.- Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of independent Algeria.
2025.- Max Romeo, Jamaican reggae legend.
