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On a December
18: 2000 In US state capitals members of the electoral college cast votes for US president, 271 votes for George W. Bush and 266 for Al Gore (one DC Gore elector cast a blank ballot to protest DC's taxation without representation). Some Democrats had tried to convince a few Republican electors to switch to Gore (who has won the popular vote), but in vain. The votes would be officially counted on 6January during a joint session of Congress. 2000 The Los Angeles Times reports that the animals in the Los Angeles zoo are kept in inhumane conditions, and that the gorillas are desperately trying to escape. Some of them have succeeded a few times, but were always caught. 1999 El miembro de ETA (Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna) Ramón Aldasoro Magunacelaya es extraditado a España por las autoridades judiciales de Estados Unidos. Se trata del primer etarra extraditado por este país. 1999 After living atop an ancient redwood in Humboldt County, Calif., for two years, environmental activist Julia ''Butterfly'' Hill came down, ending her anti-logging protest. 1998 Astrónomos estadounidenses del laboratorio Lawrence Berkeley publican en la revista científica Science la observación de una supernova situada a 18'000 millones de años-luz de distancia y con una edad de casi 10'000 millones de años. 1997 Los comicios para elegir presidente en Corea del Sur dan la victoria al histórico líder de la oposición, de 74 años de edad, Kim Dae Yung, en la elección más reñida en la historia del país, con sólo 400'000 votos de diferencia con respecto a su oponente, el magistrado Lee Hoi Chang. 1995 Javier Solana Madariaga toma posesión como secretario general de la OTAN. Se trata del décimo dirigente de esta organización. 1992 Kim Young Sam gana las elecciones presidenciales en Corea del Sur. 1989 Los presidentes de los cinco países integrantes del Pacto Andino (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela), reunidos en las islas Galápagos, acuerdan reactivar el Pacto y firman un compromiso de paz y cooperación. 1988 El escritor chileno Luis Sepúlveda obtiene el premio "Tigre Juan" de novela, otorgado en España, con Un viejo que leía novelas de amor.
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1986 El pintor Miguel Barceló y el escultor Miguel Navarro
reciben el Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas de España. 1986 El dramaturgo español Antonio Buero Vallejo logra el Premio Cervantes de Literatura. 1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns hostage-taking. 1979 El Vaticano condena al teólogo suizo Hans Kung por "desprecio al magisterio de la Iglesia" y le priva de su cátedra universitaria. 1979 Abel Matutes es elegido vicepresidente de Alianza Popular. 1979 Fernando Sánchez Dragó recibe el Premio Nacional de Ensayo por Gárgoris y Habidis. Una historia mágica de España. 1977 El secretario general de UGT, Nicolás Redondo Urbieta, dimite de su cargo en el PSOE. 1977 Atentado de ETA Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna contra la central nuclear de Lemóniz (España). 1976 Se realiza en Zürich el intercambio, propiciado por Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, del disidente soviético Vladimir Bukovski por el secretario general del PC chileno, Luis Corvalán.
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1969 Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty
for murder. 1968 La asamblea general de laONU pide al Reino Unido que descolonice Gibraltar antes del 01 octubre de 1969. 1965 US Marines attack VC units in the Que Son Valley during Operation Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon. 1964 El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU prorroga la estancia de cascos azules en Chipre por espacio de 3 meses. 1963 Muskegon, MI gets 1 meter of snow 1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu 1960 In Laos a rightist government is installed under Prince Boun Oum as the United States resumes arms shipments. 1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) 1957 The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, goes online. 1956 Japan is admitted to the United Nations. 1951 North Koreans give the United Nations a list of 3100 POWs. 1948 Holanda vuelve a ocupar Indonesia, país al que había concedido hacía poco la independencia, ante el caos político allí existente. 1945 Uruguay joins the United Nations 1944 Japanese forces are repelled from northern Burma by British troops. 1944 The US Supreme Court upheld the shameful wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained. 1942 Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval. 1941 Erwin Rommel inicia la retirada en el norte de África. 1941 Defended by 610 fighting men, the American-held island of Guam falls to more than 5000 Japanese invaders in a three-hour battle.
1939 Un ataque de las fuerzas aéreas británicas contra Wilhelmshaven (Alemania) se salda con la pérdida de 15 aparatos. 1936 León Trotski es admitido en México en calidad de refugiado, tras un peregrinaje de nueve años por diversos países. 1936 1st giant panda imported into US 1935 El holandés Max Euwe arrebata el título de campeón mundial de ajedrez al ruso-francés Alexandr Aleksandrovich Alekhine, que lo retuvo durante ocho años. 1929 Gran exposición de Paul Klee en Berlín, con motivo del 50 aniversario del nacimiento del artista. 1926 La Cámara de Diputados de Guatemala proclama nuevo presidente al general Lazaro Chacón. 1925 Soviet leaders Lev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev break with Joseph Stalin (he'll have them executed for it).. 1923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco 1923 El gobierno de Grecia invita al rey Jorge II a que salga del país. 1920 Es detenido en Barcelona el sindicalista y ex director de Solidaridad Obrera, Ángel Pestaña Núñez, cuando regresaba de Italia.
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1912 El piloto francés Roland Garros realiza con éxito la primera travesía del Mediterráneo, de Túnez a Roma.
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1862 Nathan B. Forrest engages and defeats a Federal
cavalry force near Lexington in his continued effort to disrupt supply lines.
1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant announces the organization of his army in the West. Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand are to be corps commanders. 1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth" 1849 William Cranch Bond, 60, with his son George Phillips Bond (1825-65), makes the first recognizable daguerreotype of the Moon 1839 1st celestial photograph (of the moon) made in US, by John William Draper, 28, New York NY. 1816 Simón Bolívar se embarca en la segunda expedición que parte de Haití, llamada "Expedición de Jacmel" por haber salido de ese puerto. 1813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in Paris after his disastrous campaign in Russia. 1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution 1777 1st US national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender 1774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa. 1535 El corsario berberisco Khair ben Eddyn Barbarroja saquea el puerto menorquín de Mahón (España).
1118 Alfonso the Battler, the Christian King of Aragon captures Saragossa, Spain, a major blow to Muslim Spain.
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Deaths
which occurred on a December 18: 2002 Jawad Issam Zidan, 15, Palestinian boy, late in the night, by Israeli tank shells fired at a building in the Al-Amal neighborhood of Rafah, Gaza Strip. 2002 Seven Islamic militants, by Algerian soldiers and government-armed militia who encircled them in the Zaccar mountains. Algeria's Islamic insurgency has claimed an estimated 120'000 lives since it started in 1992 after the army canceled legislative elections that an Islamic party was sure to win. 2002 Two Algerian soldiers in an ambush at Dellys, 50 km east of Algiers, at 14:00. Two other soldiers are wounded. Un détachement militaire se dirigeait vers son cantonnement quand il est tombé dans une embuscade sur la route reliant Sahel Boubarek à Sidi Daoud, 40 km au nord-est de Boumerdès. La déflagration d'une bombe artisanale actionnée à distance par un groupe embusqué dans un coin boisé fut suivie de rafales d'armes automatiques. Les militaires se heurtent, à Boumerdès et dans d'autres régions, à des contre-offensives meurtrières à chaque fois qu'ils pénètrent les refuges de l'ennemi islamiste. Depuis janvier 2002, les forces de sécurité ont eu pas moins de cent morts et des dizaines de blessés. en combattant les hordes islamistes de Hassan Hattab, l'«émir» du GSPC, dont elles ont neutralisé en Kabylie plus de cent cinquante militants. 2002 Ishwan Mahato, killed by police in the Sanda forests, in the newly created state Jharkhand, India. He was the top leader of the Maoist Communist Center guerillas. More than 6000 deaths have resulted in five states of south and east India from these rebels' fighting, started in 1981. They mostly target rich landowners and police, as exploiters of farm workers. They are allied with other rebels, the People's War Group. Thu MCC would retaliate in the night of 19 Dec to 20 Dec 2002 by ambushing a police van and killing 18. Jharkhand was formed from areas of southern Bihar and neighboring states. Its traditional inhabitants are Munda and Dravidian tribesmen, although now many other Indians also live there. 2001 Andrés Felipe Pérez Ocampo, 12, of cancer, in Buga, Colombia. For months the media had covered the agonizing boy's pleas to the FARC rebels, who for almost 2 years have been holding prisoner his father, police Cpl. Pérez, to let him see him before he died. Earlier there was hope that a kidney transplant from the father might save the boy. But the FARC rejected all pleas, even when several prominent Colombians offered to temporarily take the father’s place in captivity order to fulfill the child’s wish. The government rejected the FARC's proposal of an exchange with an imprisoned guerilla. 2001 Twelve soldiers and gunmen, in al-Hosun village, Marib province, Yemen, some 200 km east of Sana'a, in fight between special forces of the Yemeni army and police and armed tribesmen. Earlier in the day, Yemeni troops and police backed by tanks and helicopters had shelled al-Hosun, where they believe that suspected members of bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network may have taken refuge. The tribe leaders, after two days of negotiations, had refused to hand over five wanted men.
1987 Marguerite Yourcenar, escritora francesa. 1980 Alexei N. Kosygin , 76, Soviet PM, of heart attack 1977 Louis Untermeyer, 92, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line) 1947 Víctor Manuel III, último rey de Italia
1902 Bengt Nordenberg, Swedish artist born on 22 April 1822. 1880 Michel Chasles, mathematician.
1848 Bernhard Bolzano, mathematician. 1828 Joseph Rebell, Austrian artist born on 11 January 1787. 1803 Johann Gottfried Herder, crítico, teólogo y filósofo alemán. 1799 Jean Montucla, 74, mathematician. 1737 Antonio Stradivari renowned violin-maker, in Cremona, Duchy of Milan, born in 1648 (not 1644 as erroneously stated in many sources). Stradivari surpassed Niccolò Amati, to whem he was apprenticed in about 1658. He may have remained with him until Amati's death in 1684. Stradivari's earliest extant label is dated 1666 and his last 1737. His finest instruments were made after 1700. He produced at least 1116 instruments, of which 540 violins, 12 violas, and 50 cellos were known. He also made fine viols, guitars, and mandolins. His workmanship brought the violin to perfection, and later artisans have tried to imitate his instruments. 1714 César d'Estrées, cardenal francés. 1559 Tunstall, mathematician |
Births which
occurred on a December 18: 1996 “Nigritian Ebonics”, to mean”African-American Language”, is used by the Oakland, California, School Board, as it votes its Resolution No. 597-0063 to treat it as any other non-English home language of students. On 03 January 1997 the Linguistic Society of America would declare the decision “linguistically and pedagogically sound.” On 15 January 1997 The Oakland School Board, in its Resolution No. 9697-0063, would amend the 18 Dec 96 resolution to emphasize that the goal is “to move students from the language patterns they bring to school to English proficiency”. Meanwhile there would be a passionate debate across the US about Ebonics, and it would demonstrate “that people can't learn from each other if they don't speak the same language. ... All of the key words that keep coming up in these discussions clearly mean different things to different parties in the debate, and that blocks successful communication and makes it too easy for each participant to believe that the others are mad, scheming, or stupid.” [Fillmore] 1984 The Nova car. The first Chevy Nova is introduced by New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. This car later met with marketing trouble in Spanish-speaking countries: "¿No va? Pues no la compro. 1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) is formed by Jesse Jackson in Chicago 1950 Leonard Maltin New York NY, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight) 1943 Alfonso López Gradolí, escritor y poeta español. 1939 Michael Moorcock England, author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear) 1936 César, comedia de Marcel Pagnol, se estrena en París. 1927 Sterling Lanier US, writer (Hiero's Journey) 1927 Ramsey Clark, US Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson [1967-1969] 1920 Enrique Grau, Colombian artist. 1917 Lyndon, mathematician. 1917 Ossie Davis (writer, actor: A Raisin in the Sun, Grumpy Old Men, Evening Shade) 1913 Alfred Bester US, science fiction author (Deceivers, Starlight)
1910 Abe Burrows (Tony Award-winning director and playwright: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [1962]) 1907 Christopher Fry (Harris) (poet, dramatist: The Boy with a Cart, A Phoenix Too Frequent, The Lady's Not for Burning) 1898 Giuseppe Viviani, Italian artist who died in 1965. 1888 Robert Moses, public servant who supervised the construction of many New York landmarks, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Shea Stadium. He died on 29 July 1981, 1879 Paul Klee, Swiss German Expressionist painter who died on 29 June 1940. Author of Pedagogical Sketchbook (1925). MORE ON KLEE AT ART 4 DECEMBER LINKS 1914 Seiltanzer Insula Dulcamara Südliche Gärten Tunisian Gardens Ancient Sounds Legend of the Nile The Golden Fish Threat of Lightning Captive Parnassus Der Marsch zum Gipfel Jester Kronenarr Red and White Domes Remembrance of a Garden Once Emerged from the Gray of Night
1861 Edward MacDowell US, composer (Indian Suite) 1857 Rafael María Carrasquilla Ortega, eclesiástico y escritor colombiano. 1856 Joseph John Thomson England, physicist, discovered the electron (Nobel 1906). He died on 30 August 1940. 1837 David Adolf Constant Artz, Dutch artist who died on 05 November 1890. [I find no Artz in the arts sites on the Internet] 1835 William Frederick Yeames, British artist who died on 03 May 1918. 1820 Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker, German artist who died on 20 December 1900. 1819 Isaac Thomas Hecker, US Catholic leader. He entered the Redemptorist Order in 1845, and in 1858 founded the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (the Paulist Fathers). He was superior general of the Paulist Society during his last 30 years (1858_88). 1796 Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, dramaturgo español. 1786 Carl Maria von Weber Germany, romantic opera composer (Der Freischutz) 1779 Joseph Grimaldi England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history") 1709 Elizabeth empress of Russia (to Peter the Great & Catherine I) 1707 Charles Wesley co-founder (Methodist movement) 1633 Willen van de Velde, British artist who died 07 April 1707. 1631 Ludolf Bakhuyzen (or Backhuyzen), Dutch artist who died on 17 November 1708. 1610 Charles Du Fresne Du Cange French scholar/philologist |
Épona Épona est une divinité gauloise, dont la caractéristique est de n’avoir été contaminée par aucune divinité romaine et dont le culte a perduré pendant la plus grande partie de l’époque gallo-romaine. Il s’agit d’une déesse très populaire, à en juger d’après le nombre important de figurations qu’on en connaît, en particulier des figurines en terre cuite de l’Allier, dont on sait qu’elles étaient particulièrement répandues dans toute la Gaule. Le nom même d’Épona contient celui du cheval Épo (Equus en latin). Les représentations de la déesse sont diverses : tantôt une jument allaitant son poulain (musée de Beaune), que certains voient comme le prototype de la déesse et d’autres, comme une simple contamination de l’art hellénistique, tantôt une écuyère assise en amazone sur une jument ou parfois couchée, plus exceptionnellement debout près de la jument. Ce ne sont là que les grandes lignes de l’iconographie. Il y a de nombreuses variantes, que l’on peut tenter de regrouper selon des ensembles géographiques. Ainsi en Moselle et dans le Luxembourg, elle se tient à califourchon (Senon, dans la Meuse, musée de Saint-Germain). Ailleurs (Rome, Bulgarie, Afrique du Nord), elle est assise et donne une pâture symbolique, des fruits, à un groupe de chevaux. En Bourgogne, la monture pose parfois le sabot sur un rocher. D’autre part, ses attributs sont variés : corne d’abondance, patère, fouet, cravache, clé. Pour certains, le culte d’Épona aurait pris naissance dans les Balkans, et par le Danube serait parvenu jusqu’en Gaule. En fait, les trois régions qui nous livrent abondance de documents sont la Bourgogne, la vallée de la Moselle, la vallée du Rhin. Les interprétations de l’iconographie sont malaisées et, à vrai dire, contradictoires, d’autant que l’épigraphie n’apporte guère de précisions supplémentaires. Les auteurs latins voyaient dans Épona la protectrice des chevaux et des écuries. De nos jours, une tendance en fait également une divinité protectrice du foyer, telle les Matres . Ainsi en Bourgogne la jument allaite souvent un poulain, preuve, qu’il s’agit d’une divinité nourricière. Pour d’autres, elle évoque bien plus le voyage de l’âme vers l’au-delà, et remplit une fonction de protection vis-à-vis des mortels. Ce caractère funéraire serait attesté par l’attitude d’Épona dans des bas-reliefs de Luxembourg ou de Luxeuil, faisant le geste de la bénédiction, ou par des attributs comme le fouet (qu’on rencontre aux mains des Dioscures) ou la clé qui ouvre les portes de l’au-delà ; le poulain signifierait la continuité de la vie par la descendance... Il serait sage en tout cas de parler de pluralité des Épona. Pour distinguer une seule divinité, il faudrait connaître beaucoup mieux le panthéon gaulois que ce n’est le cas actuellement. Sur la stèle d’Hagondange (Moselle), deux écuyères figurent aux côtés d’une déesse centrale. D’autre part, rien ne nous indique la part de confusion qui a pu se produire en Gaule, avant même la conquête romaine, entre l’Épona et des divinités locales protectrices des chevaux. Ce qui tout de même la rend unique, c’est sa " solitude et son célibat résolu, chose rare dans la société divine des Celtes ", et la présence du cheval. Ce caractère exceptionnel assurera le succès d’Épona dans l’Empire romain, en dehors même des dédicaces effectuées par des Gaulois de l’armée romaine. C’est ainsi qu’en Italie un calendrier du Ier siècle fixe sa fête au 18 décembre : honneur unique attribué à une divinité gauloise à Rome même. D’autre part, il ne peut pas ne pas y avoir eu contamination des représentations de la déesse à cheval sur la "Vierge écuyère" fuyant en Égypte, au Moyen Âge. |