Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, President of Peru (died 2024)

Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, effectively ruling as a dictator. During Fujimori's tenure, the Peruvian Armed Forces responded to the far-left guerrilla group Shining Path with repressive and lethal force, halting the group's actions while also killing thousands of innocent civilians. Fujimori became known for his neoliberal political and economic ideology of Fujimorism, which pushed a free market economy and social conservatism. He also collaborated with the head of the National Intelligence Service (SIN), Vladimiro Montesinos, in his efforts to consolidate power and eliminate his opponents.

Born

1938

July 28

Died

2024

Era

1930s

Country

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Alberto, in brief

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1938 Born
2024 Died

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1364 Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
1402 Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
1540 Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
1571 La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines, is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.

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The world in 1938

When Alberto arrived

april 18 Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938).
april 25 U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
april 5 Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.
august 18 The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Charles Dillon Perrine 1867–1951 American-Argentinian astronomer (died 1951) Francis Veber 1937– French director and screenwriter Harry Kane 1993– English footballer Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929–1994 American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (died 1994) Lori Loughlin 1964– American actress Mike Bloomfield 1943–1981 American guitarist and songwriter (born 1943) Russ Jackson 1936– Canadian football player and coach Santiago Calatrava 1951– Spanish architect and engineer, designed the Athens Olympic Sports Complex Sir Karl Popper 1902– Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1994)

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Alan Bond 1938–2015 English-Australian businessman (died 2015) Andrew Clennel Palmer 1938–2019 British engineer (born 1938) Anthony Giddens 1938– English sociologist and academic Anthony James Leggett 1938– English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026) Billy Shaw 1938–2024 American football player (died 2024) Caryl Churchill 1938– English-Canadian playwright Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) Daniel Buren 1938– French sculptor and painter David Eden Lane 1938– American white supremacist (died 2007)

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