Anniversaries for July 6

Santo Domingo.- The anniversaries of July 6th are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left a mark on world history. Below are the main anniversaries for July 6th:

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World Zoonoses Day.
World Fried Chicken Day.
International Kissing Day.

National: July 6th anniversaries

1689: In La Herradura, Santiago, a battle takes place between Spanish and French troops, with the French subsequently occupying the city.
1843: Don Juan José Duarte gifts a house to his son Juan Pablo, “as a sign of the great love and affection with which he has always looked upon him.”
1878: The first term of President Cesáreo Guillermo ends, and Ignacio María González takes office for the fifth time, serving until September 2 of that year.
1885: Monsignor Fernando Arturo de Meriño is consecrated as Archbishop of Santo Domingo.
1960: Communist leaders Máximo López Molina and Andrés Ramos Peguero are invited by dictator Rafael Trujillo to a meeting at the National Palace to discuss matters related to the functioning of democracy in the country, being received by Mr. Francisco Prats Ramírez, who, on behalf of the dictator, expressed the dictator’s desire “to pave the way for a democracy.”
1961: President Joaquín Balaguer reiterates that there will be free elections in the country in 1962 and that he will not present his presidential candidacy.
1962: The Dominican Republic and the United States agree to investigate the disappearance of the Spanish writer Jesús de Galíndez, who fought against the Trujillo tyranny.
1965: Representatives of the Constitutionalist Government presided over by Francisco Caamaño and the OAS Ad-Hoc Commission meet again to analyze the Dominican political crisis.
1966: President Joaquín Balaguer enacts the Austerity Law, which reduced all current government expenditures in order to increase the State’s centralized savings.
1972: The Monetary Board creates the Department for the Development of Tourism Infrastructure (INFRATUR).
1982: The remains of President Antonio Guzmán Fernández, who committed suicide with a gunshot to the head in the National Palace the previous day, are buried in the municipal cemetery of Santiago.
2005: United States President George W. Bush lifts the ban on military aid to the country, following a bilateral agreement to prevent the International Criminal Court from prosecuting U.S. personnel present on Dominican territory.
2006: Through Resolution number 28-6, the Council of Aldermen of the Santo Domingo Este City Council designates the section of the Mella highway that runs from Sabana Larga Avenue to Charles de Gaulle with the name of the Spanish-born merchant Pedro J. Lama.
2011: Dominican-Puerto Rican lawyer Wanda Pérez Maldonado is appointed head of the Public Integrity Bureau of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
2015: The deadline given by the authorities to foreign residents in an irregular situation who did not enroll in the National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners to return voluntarily to their countries expires.
2020: The presidential candidate of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Gonzalo Castillo, acknowledges at midnight the victory of his opponent, Luis Abinader, nominated by the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) and other allied organizations.
• Among the novelties of the presidential and legislative elections held on the 5th of the current month, the traditional majority parties receive their lowest voting percentages: the PRD, 2.41% and the PRSC, 1.78%.
2021: Broadcaster Willie Rodríguez, director of the Z-101 radio station, passes away at 72 years of age after being hospitalized for several weeks due to the COVID-19 virus.
2022: The Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Orlando Jorge Mera, is assassinated by several gunshots in his office by his childhood friend Miguel Cruz.
• The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states that the Dominican Republic shows a decrease in its hunger levels in the last two years, overcoming the prevalence of undernourishment of 6.7% for 2021, registering 8.3% in the 2019-2020 period.
• The Ministry of Public Health confirmed the first case of monkeypox in the country, after receiving the tests performed on a patient who arrived in the country from the United States with symptoms, for which he was admitted to the Ramón de Lara military hospital.

International: events of July 6

1539: Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas secures a commitment from the governor of Guatemala, Don Alfonso Maldonado, that the natives of Tuzulutlán, once conquered, would not be given in encomienda, but would be vassals of the Crown.
1821: In Peru, the Spanish colonial administrator José de la Serna chooses to abandon the City of Lima, heading into the interior of the country, leaving a garrison at the Real Felipe Fortresses in Callao under the command of José Ramón Rodil.
1827: The Treaty of London, concluded between England, France, and Russia, recognizes the independence of Greece.
1885: Louis Pasteur achieves the first inoculation for rabies in humans.
1923: The first Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) enters into force.
1960: United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower reduces the Cuban sugar import quota by 95% in retaliation for the nationalization of American properties.
1961: Peruvian military officials force APRA leader Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre to withdraw from the electoral campaign, arguing that they will not allow him to win the elections and assume the presidency.
1966: In the Mexican city of San Luis Río Colorado (state of Sonora), the world’s historical temperature of 58.6 degrees Celsius is recorded in the shade.
1991: Nelson Mandela is appointed president of the African National Congress (ANC) by acclamation, replacing Oliver Tambo.
2005: The Court of Appeals of Chile strips former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity so that he can be put on trial for the crimes of “Operation Colombo.”
• In El Salvador, police agents violently disperse a student demonstration gathered in front of the central campus of the University of El Salvador.
2006: The Federal Electoral Institute of Mexico declares the candidate of the National Action Party (PAN), Felipe Calderón, the winner of the presidential elections after several days of counting the more than 70 million votes cast.
2009: Former Pentagon chief Robert McNamara, considered the architect of the United States military escalation in Vietnam in the 1960s, dies at the age of 93.
2010: The embarrassing espionage case that clouded the new era of relations between Russia and the United States is closed with an image typical of the Cold War: an exchange of 10 Russian secret agents for as many Americans in the former communist state.
2012: The Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) ratifies Enrique Peña Nieto, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), as the winner of the presidential election.
2013: In Canada, a train accident occurs in the city of Lac-Mégantic, causing at least 50 deaths when a train loaded with oil explodes in the center of the town.
2020: The Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office issues a formal indictment for alleged terrorism crimes against the country’s former president Evo Morales, who is in exile in Argentina, and requests his preventive detention.
• More than 200 scientists request in an open letter that the World Health Organization (WHO) recognize “the potential for airborne transmission” of COVID-19 and adopt preventive measures to mitigate this route of coronavirus transmission.
2022: The governor of the Ukrainian province of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, urges the population to leave the region, indicating that troops will soon advance toward this area of the Donbas following the intensification of Russian shelling.
• Police in the American town of Highland Park report that Robert Crimo, arrested for the deadly shooting on July 4 in that city located on the outskirts of Chicago, had admitted to being the author of the crime and having considered committing a second attack in Madison, in the neighboring state of Wisconsin.
2023: Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasili Nebenzia, asserts that if reports indicating that the U.S. will announce the delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine are confirmed, it will be “another step toward the escalation” of the conflict.