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2001 Event - Earthquake and landslides kill 850 in El Salvador

1994 Death - Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71

1994 Event - Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election

1994 Event - El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war

1993 Event - 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador

1993 Death - Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered

1993 Death - Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies

1992 Death - Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of El Salvador, dies

1991 Event - 22nd New York City Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28

1991 Death - Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies

1990 Death - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62

1989 Event - U.S. plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1989 Death - Salvador Dali, Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84

1988 Event - 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador

1986 Event - 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador

1985 Event - El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election

1985 Death - Salvador Ley, composer, dies at 78

1984 Event - Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election

1983 Event - El Salvador adopts constitution

1983 Death - Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered

1983 Event - Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid

1982 Event - Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep

1982 Event - Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador

1982 Event - Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador

1982 Event - JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador

1982 Event - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador

1982 Death - Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador

1982 Death - Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador

1982 Death - Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador

1982 Death - Koos Koster, Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador

1981 Event - El Salvador army kills 900

1981 Event - El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive"

1981 Birthday - Adriana Lima, born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, model, appeared on covers of 'ELLE', 'GQ', 'Vogue' magazines, ranked world's 4th highest paid supermodel in 2008

1981 Event - El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"

1980 Death - Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered

1980 Event - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador

1980 Event - Honduras and El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)

1980 Event - Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute

1980 Death - Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass

1979 Event - Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees

1979 Death - Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61

1977 Birthday - Carmen Carrillo Vilanova, Miss El Salvador Universe 1997

1976 Birthday - Milena Mayorga, Miss Universe-El Salvador 1996

1973 Event - Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup

1973 Death - Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65

1970 Event - Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile

1970 Event - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile

1970 Event - Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile

1969 Event - "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins

1969 Event - Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match

1961 Event - Military coup in El Salvador

1952 Birthday - Salvador Pineda, Mexico City, doctor

1947 Birthday - Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador, 1989-94

1947 Birthday - James Woods, born in Warwick, Rhode Island, actor, Salvador, Against All Odds

1934 Birthday - Joan Didion, U.S. novelist/journalist, Salvador

1932 Event - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers

1929 Event - Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show

1928 Death - Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies

1925 Birthday - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador

1922 Event - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved

1921 Event - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union

1917 Birthday - Louis Salvador Palange, composer

1912 Birthday - Salvador Contreras, composer

1912 Birthday - Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969

1911 Death - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79

1908 Birthday - Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73

1907 Birthday - Salvador Ley, composer

1904 Birthday - Salvador Dali, Figueras, Spain, surrealist artist, Crucifixion

1900 Birthday - Roberto Soundy, born in El Salvador, trap shooter, 1968 Olympics

1895 Event - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union

1895 Event - Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-lived confederation

1886 Birthday - Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat

1871 Death - Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40

1854 Event - San Salvador destroyed by earthquake

1853 Birthday - Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet, Los Cien Mejores Poemas

1832 Birthday - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer

1831 Birthday - Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer

1822 Event - In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US

1821 Event - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ

1811 Event - El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence

1776 Death - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War

1775 Event - Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)

1627 Event - Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador

1627 Event - Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil

1625 Event - Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)

1624 Event - Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist

1519 Event - 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico

1492 Event - Columbus lands on San Salvador Island

1492 Event - Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)

1492 Event - Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion













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