Hoy en la Historia

May 25, 2018

The Republic of Ireland voted overwhelmingly to overturn a ban on abortion, amending a law that gave an unborn foetus an equal right to life as the mother 1809: A revolt in Chuquisaca against the Spanish Empire began the South American Wars of Independence 2005: A 1,762km-long oil pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey was officially opened 2006: Scientists identified a virus in wild apes, supporting the theory that the HIV virus originated in wild chimpanzees 2009: North Korea conducted a second nuclear weapons test, much stronger than its first test in 2006