June 23. What are we celebrating?

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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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