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Historical Events
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1821-09-15 - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
1839-04-17 - Guatemala forms republic
1871-06-30 - Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
1902-10-25 - Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
1913-03-28 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1921-01-19 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
1922-01-29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1944-10-01 - Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala
1944-10-20 - Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
1945-04-19 - The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1950-11-10 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected pres of Guatemala
1952-04-19 - 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
1954-06-17 - CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
1954-06-27 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1954-07-08 - Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala
1957-07-26 - Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
1958-02-12 - Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
1960-07-14 - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1960-10-30 - Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
1976-02-04 - 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
1977-04-27 - 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1980-01-31 - Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41
1982-03-23 - Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, pres Romeo Lucas flees
1982-06-09 - General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala
1983-01-07 - Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
1983-08-08 - Military coup in Guatemala, Pres Rios Montt flees
1985-05-31 - Guatemala adopts constitution
1986-01-14 - Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1986-01-14 - Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1987-08-07 - 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
1989-06-17 - US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1991-01-06 - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
1991-01-14 - Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala
1993-06-01 - Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993-06-06 - Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala
1996-05-06 - Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with govt of President Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war
1996-10-16 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1997-07-28 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2007-02-19 - Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala.
Famous Birthdays
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1817-11-24 - Juan de la Cruz Moreno Maisonave, Guatemala
1899-10-19 - Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67)
1913-09-14 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1915-03-17 - Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1918-07-17 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1935-03-27 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1942-12-26 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, Guatemalan president
1964-01-19 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
1973-07-16 - Karla Beteta, Miss Universe-Guatemala (1996)
1978-03-03 - Carol Aquino, Miss Guatemala Universe (1997)
1979-09-15 - Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan soccer player
Famous Deaths
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1907-06-09 - Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered
1957-07-26 - Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered
1968-08-28 - John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies
1971-01-27 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1981-07-28 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1990-09-11 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
1990-10-07 - Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1996-04-30 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, pres of Guatemala (1966-70), dies
1997-02-18 - Enrique Peralta Azurdia, milt pres of Guatemala in (1963-66), dies
2003-02-07 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003-12-06 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
