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- From: nagual@XOCHICALCO.EDU (Dick J. Reavis)
- Subject: Tonalamatl/Wed. Dec 23, 1992
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- Organization: Xochicalco University, Tijuana, BCN
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:01:55 GMT
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- Today is the 358th day of 1992 with 8 remaining.
- The moon is new.
- The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter.
- The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn.
-
- Maya Long Count: 12. 18. 19. 12. 17. UUC-Caban MI Kankin
- Supplement: Day 1/30 of lunation number 1. Night Lord: Mictlantecuhtli.
- Mexica: CHICOME-Calli. CHICOME-Ollin Tozoztontli MACTLACTLINAHUI
- Otomi Quenza: 7-Anegu. Mapa: 7-Anquitzhey. Cana: Antzhotho 14
- Purepecha: CUIMU-Tzhinapu. YUNTZIMAN-Yurniri. Cuingo TENBENYUNTAMU
- Zapotec Yza: 5-Quij. Chij: 7-Xoo. Cocijo: 1-Loo. Cocij: 1-Loo.
- Miercoles 23 de Diciembre de 1992
-
- Feast of the Radishes (Oaxaca)
-
- 1731
- An auto-da-fe against several natives takes place in Mexico City,
- even though natives were excluded from the Inquisition jurisdiction.
-
- 1813
- Insurgent forces are defeated in Valladolid (Michoacan).
-
- 1829
- An uprising in Mexico City occurs following the Plan of Jalapa which
- overthrows President Interim Jose Maria Bocanegra and gives
- power to Pedro Velez before Bustamante takes power next January, 1st.
-
- 1832
- Zavaleta Treaty. President Bustamante agrees with Santa Anna to
- resign to his post and allow Manuel Gomez Pedraza to assume it.
-
- 1845
- Philanthropist Fr. Nicolas Garcia de San Vicente dies in Mexico City.
-
- 1854
- Victoriano Huerta is born. Responsible for the overthrow of Francisco I.
- Madero's government in 1913, and self-imposed provisional president
- 1913-1914.
-
- 1857
- After President Comonfort takes a military coup against himself in
- order to change to a Conservative government his title is disavowed by
- the government of Jalisco.
-
- 1888
- Bandit Heraclio Bernal ("Sinaloa Lightning") is killed near Cosala,
- Sinaloa.
-
- Intellectual Alfonso Teja Zabre is born in San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato.
-
- 1931
- Diego Rivera's retrospective opens at the Museum of Modern Art (143
- paintings and works on paper; 8 'portable' fresco panels and 3 that
- treat NYC topics) and sets attendance records.
-
- 1944
- Exiled Basque, Catalan and Galician leaders announce in Mexico City the
- signing of a "pact of solidarity and alliance" to unify their efforts
- for overthrowing Gen. Francisco Franco's regime.
-
- 1947
- Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren's Telefonos de Mexico, S.A., takes
- over the Mexican Ericsson Telephone Co. in Mexico City. He will put the
- firm and the Mexicana Telephone & Telegraph Co., in which he already
- owns 49% of the stock, under one management for the first time.
-
- Scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories announce the invention of the
- transistor, a device which will revolutionize electronic circuit
- construction.
-
- 1950
- Pope Pius XII confirms that the tomb of St. Peter has been discovered
- beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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- "Mexico has learned what its limits are, and how to live with them. I think
- that knowledge makes its people the wisest citizens in our hemisphere."
- -- Dick J. Reavis, _Conversations with Moctezuma_
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