2023 – GEOGRAPHERS DAY. The day of geographer in memory of the death of the expert Francisco Pascasio Moreno.
Moreno died in Buenos Aires on November 22, 1919, at the age of 67. The geographer, paleontologist, naturalist and researcher is known for exploring Patagonia and promoting the creation of national parks. He was also the architect of the border with Chile.
Expert Francisco Moreno
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1859 – CECILIA GRIERSON. Cecilia Grierson, the country’s first woman to obtain a medical degree, was born in Buenos Aires after graduating from the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires at the age of 30. She founded the School of Nurses of the Argentine Medical Circle, which today bears her name.
Cecilia Grierson
1875 – PABLO PODESTÁ. The Uruguayan actor, sculptor and musician Pablo Podesta, considered one of the founders of the Creole circus, was born in Montevideo. He was one of the greatest figures in Argentine theater of his time.
1955 – EVA PERON. Under the civil-military regime presided over by Pedro Aramburu, a group of soldiers under the command of the head of Army Intelligence, Carlos Moori Koenig, kidnapped the remains of Maria Eva Duarte de Perón in the General Confederation of Labor, where she was resting had since her death. the First Lady in 1952.
Maria Eva Duarte de Peron. Telam Archive
1963 – JOHN F. KENNEDY. At the age of 46, American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper while traveling in a convertible through the city of Dallas (Texas, USA) with his wife Jacquelin Bouvier and an official delegation. Lee Harvey Oswald, who was murdered by gangster Jack Ruby at the door of the police station where he was being held, was accused of the assassination attempt. The authorship of the attack and its accomplices remains controversial.
Last greeting from President Kennedy, “shot” a few seconds later. | AP
1997 – MICHAEL HUTCHENCE. Australian musician, composer and singer Michael Hutchence, singer of the popular rock band INXS, with whom he sold more than 65 million records, dies in the city of Sydney at the age of 37.
2014 – LIONEL MESSI. Barcelona’s Argentine star Lionel Messi becomes the Spanish Football League’s all-time top scorer by scoring three of the goals that helped his team beat Sevilla 5-1, reaching 253 wins against the record of 251, that the Spaniard Telmo Zarra had.
(AP)
2023 – UNIVERSITY FREE. Free University Day is celebrated, proclaimed in 2007 to commemorate Decree 29,337 of 1949, issued by President and General Juan Domingo Perón, establishing free access to national universities.
Illustrative image. (Archive)
2023 – MUSICIAN DAY. International Musicians’ Day is celebrated to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Saint Cecilia, martyr of Christianity and patron saint of musicians.
Illustrative image. (Archive)
Other anniversaries
1497.- The Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama circumnavigates the Cape of Good Hope (southern Africa).
1822.- The Congress of Verona (Italy) decides to send the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis to Spain.
1824.- Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua promulgate the constitution that unites the five countries in a federation ruled by a president, but leaves the heads of each state wide freedom.
1873.- The French ocean liner “Ville du Havre” sinks due to a collision on its voyage to New York and 226 people die.
1928.- The work “Bolero” by the French composer Maurice Ravel is premiered at the Paris Opera.
1934.- The engineer and pilot Ramón Torres, the first Spanish aviator to cross the Sahara, begins his flight to Africa.
1943.- Lebanon gains independence from France.
1955.- The USSR detonates a hydrogen bomb in Siberia.
– After the fall of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón, the embalmed body of Eva Perón is kidnapped.
1956.- Opening of the XVI. Olympic Games in Melbourne (Australia).
1969.- Signing of the American Convention on Human Rights, the so-called Pact of San José, in San José, Costa Rica.
1975.- Juan Carlos I of Borbón is sworn in as King of Spain.
1977.- Spain and Portugal sign a friendship treaty replacing the Iberian Pact.
– Concorde operates its first direct flight between Paris and New York.
1983.- The Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) kidnaps Jaime Betancur Cuartas, brother of the President of the Republic, Belisario Betancur, in Bogotá.
1989 – Lebanese President René Muawad and 14 others were assassinated in Beirut when a powerful device exploded.
1990.- Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1992.- The pro-government coalition “Cambio 90-Nueva Mayoría” wins the constitutional elections in Peru.
1995.- Simón Peres becomes head of Israel’s 12th government when he is sworn in before Parliament in Jerusalem.
– Pixar Animation Studios releases Toy Story, the first feature film created on a computer.
2002.- The Argentine government announces the end of the banking corralito introduced the previous year for the following December 2nd.
2004.- One day after the presidential elections in Ukraine, the Central Election Commission declares Prime Minister Viktor Yukanovich the winner. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko is calling on his supporters to stage massive protests against election fraud. The “Orange Revolution” begins.
2005.- The Bundestag elects the conservative Angela Merkel as the new Chancellor. She is the first woman in German history to hold an office.
2006.- The United States and Colombia sign a free trade agreement that must be approved by the parliaments of both countries.
2010.- The federal government announces the suspension of compulsory military service from July 1, 2011.
– 351 people die and 750 are injured in a stampede in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, during the water festival.
2015.- Conservative Mauricio Macri is elected President of Argentina.
2017. – The ICTY sentences former Bosnian Serb military officer Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment for genocide and war crimes.
BIRTH
1869.- André Gide, French writer. Nobel Prize 1947.
1890.- Charles De Gaulle, French soldier and statesman.
1901.- Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer.
1940.- Terry Gilliam, American actor, director and illustrator.
1947.- Alfredo Cristiani, former President of El Salvador.
1950.- Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer.
1958.- Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress.
1967.- Boris Becker, German former tennis player.
1984.- Scarlett Johansson, American actress of European descent.
1986.- Oscar Pistorius, South African athlete.
1995.- Katherine McNamara, American actress.
DEATHS
1908.- Claude Paul Taffanel, French musician.
1916.- Jack London, American writer.
1929.- Jaime Ferrán, Spanish microbiologist.
1937.- Philip Laszlo, British painter.
1963.- Aldous Huxley, English writer.
1980.- Mae West, American actress.
2007.- Maurice Bejart, French choreographer.
– Lola Massieu, Spanish painter.
2011.- Lynn Margulis, American scientist.
– Paul Motian, American jazz drummer.
2012.- Bryce Courtenay, South African writer, settled in Australia.
2021.- Noah Gordon, American writer.
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