1520 - Massacre of Calacoaya, the invading armies of Hernán Cortés attack by surprise the Mexica town of Calacoaya, this being the second military action of Cortés in his campaign for the Conquest of Mexico.
1916 - first football match for the future Copa América between the national teams of Uruguay and Chile. Uruguay won 6-0. It took place in Buenos Aires.
1956 - in the Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates the atomic bomb Dakota (name of an ethnic group of Native Americans), of 360 kt, the thirteenth of the 17 of the operation Redwing.
2000 - In Mexico, Vicente Fox becomes the first opposition candidate to defeat the Institutional Revolutionary Party in a presidential election.
2002 - a Tupolev 154 and a cargo Boeing 757 collide in the midst of the German-Swiss border; 71 people die, among them 52 Russian children who went on vacation to Barcelona (Spain).
2005 - simultaneous concerts are held in different cities around the world to demand the end of poverty in the world.
2008 - Operation Jaque, rescue of 15 kidnap victims, including Ingrid Betancourt, the 3 American contractors and 11 uniformed soldiers held by the Colombian guerrillas of the FARC, an organization qualified as a terrorist by several countries including the European Union and the United States.
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