Hoy en la Historia

November 30, 1853

Russian ships attacked and destroyed the Turkish fleet at Sinope in the Crimean War. The battle helped bring Great Britain and France into the conflict 1998: Chinese authorities arrested five supporters of a new China Democracy Party

2001: The world’s smallest reptile, the dwarf gecko, was discovered 2009: The particle beams of the Large Hadron Collider reached over one trillion electron volts

2011: Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Cote d’ivoire, was extradited to the ICC to face trial for crimes against humanity