2023 – CRIMINALISTICS. September 1st is World Fingerprint Day as a tribute to the fingerprint system of Vucetich, a Croat nationalized from Argentina who made a fundamental discovery for the history of criminology.
The anthropologist and police officer Juan Vucetich first used the system he developed in 1891 to identify people based on their fingerprints.
Juan Vucetich
Who was Juan Vucetich?
Iván Vučetić was born on July 20, 1858 in Lesina (Dalmatia, then part of the Austrian Empire, today’s Croatia).
At the age of 24, he came to Argentina, where the name Juan Vucetich Kovacevich was nationalized.
Renowned criminologist, police officer and anthropologist Vucetich has developed a method consisting of four basic types, which he calls: arc, internal loop, external loop and vortex; Using letters to classify the thumbprints and numbers for the rest of the fingers.
The Buenos Aires Police Statistics Office used the system with fingerprints of 23 defendants after testing the method on 645 prisoners at La Plata Prison. The method was later adopted worldwide.
Vucetich died at the age of 67 on January 25, 1925 in the city of Dolores, Buenos Aires.
Ephemeris. Fingerprint Day. (Illustrative image / El Entre Ríos)
More anniversaries
1709 – BASAVILBASO SUNDAY. Spanish businessman and politician Domingo de Basavilbaso was born in the Spanish municipality of Llodio (Álava, Spain) and organized the postal system in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata, which gave rise to the Argentine post office.
1838 – ROCHA DART. The lawyer, teacher and politician Dardo Rocha, governor of Buenos Aires between 1881 and 1884, was born in Buenos Aires, a period in which he founded the cities of Necochea, La Plata, Coronel Vidal, Pehuajó and Tres Arroyos. He was a mentor and first rector of the University of La Plata.
Dart Rocha. (Facebook Dardo Rocha Museum)
1922 – VITTORIO GASSMAN. Born in the Italian city of Genoa, actor and film and theater director Vittorio Gassman made more than 50 films, including the famous Il Sorpasso and Armada Brancaleone. In 1975, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his work in the film Perfume of a Woman.
Vittorio Gassmann.
1923 – ROCKY MARTIANO. Former American boxer Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano), the only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated, is born in the town of Brockton, Massachusetts, USA. He defended his world championship title six times. Marciano won 88% of his fights by knockout.
Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles on June 17, 1954 in New York. (AP/File)
1939 – WORLD WAR 2. Nazi Germany’s army invades Poland, Adolf Hitler’s first step toward establishing a German Third Reich in Europe, leading to World War II. The conflict mobilized 100 million soldiers and left 60 million dead.
A plane from World War II. (Gentleness)
1946 – BARRY GIBB. Born in the city of Douglas (Isle of Man, United Kingdom), British-American musician, singer-songwriter and producer Barry Gibb (Barry Alan Crompton Gibb), along with his brothers Robin and Maurice, is a co-founder of the pop band Bee Gees, which sold more than 220 million Records.
1957 – GLORIA ESTEFAN. Cuban singer and actress Gloria Estefan (Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García), winner of 52 awards including seven Grammys, was born in Havana. More than 120 million records have been sold.
1983 – FLIGHT 007 KOREAN AIR. Flight 007 of the Korean airline Korean Air crashes on the ground and is shot down by Soviet interceptor aircraft while flying over Soviet territory. This is one of the most serious incidents during the Cold War between the communist bloc and the United States.
Flight 007 of the Korean airline Korean Air. (Network)
2022 – AGRICULTURAL JOURNALIST. The National Day of the Agricultural Journalist is celebrated in commemoration of the date in 1802 when the first issue of the weekly newspaper “Agriculture, Industry and Commerce” published by Hipólito Vieytes was published.
Illustrative image.
Other anniversaries
1513.- The Spaniard Vasco Núñez de Balboa undertakes a new expedition from Santa María de la Antigua (present-day Colombia) through the Isthmus of Panama towards the south, which on September 29 led him to discover a new sea, the Pacific Ocean .
1823.- Venezuelan soldier and politician Simón Bolívar, leader of Spanish-American independence, arrives in Lima and assumes supreme political and military authority.
1851.- The leader of the Cuban uprising, Narciso López, is shot in Havana.
1870.- Cirilo Antonio Rivarola is appointed provisional president of Paraguay.
1920.- General Gouraud proclaims the State of Greater Lebanon, with Beirut as its capital, which would form a federation with the other states created by France (Damascus, Aleppo, Alawite State and Jabal al-Druze).
1923. – Great Kanto Earthquake: An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale in Japan leaves approximately 105,400 dead and more than 37,000 missing and devastates the island of Honshu.
1924.- Gonzalo Córdoba takes power in Ecuador in an environment of social and military unrest.
1925.- President Plutarco Elías Calles inaugurates the Bank of Mexico.
1940.- Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río assumes the presidency of Ecuador.
1946. – Greece agrees in a referendum with 68.4% of the vote to restore the monarchy and allow the return of King George II, who had been in exile since the founding of the Second Hellenic Republic in 1924.
1951.- Australia, New Zealand and the USA sign the Pacific Tripartite Security Treaty (ANZUS).
1962.- An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale claims around 12,230 lives in northwestern Iran.
1969: Muammar Gaddafi and young left-wing army officers overthrow King Idris in Libya and establish the Supreme Council of the Revolution.
1974.- General Somoza is re-elected President of Nicaragua.
1982.- Mexican President José López Portillo nationalizes the bank.
1985.- The expedition of the American oceanographer Robert Ballard finds the remains of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.
1986.- The Soviet ship “Admiral Najimov” sinks in the Black Sea after a collision with a cargo ship, leaving 116 dead and 282 missing.
1989.- General Augusto Pinochet announces the return of the exiles (470) of the military regime to Chile.
1991: Lebanon and Syria sign a mutual defense and security pact, giving Damascus the right to respond to any Israeli attack on Lebanon, thus consolidating Syrian influence in neighboring Lebanon.
1992.- A tsunami claims 118 lives and devastates the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.
1999.- Mireya Moscoso, widow of Arnulfo Arias, is sworn in as President of Panama.
2004 – Chechen terrorists attack a school in Beslan (North Ossetia) and 331 people die, including 186 children.
– Martín Torrijos is sworn in as President of Panama.
2010.- Obama officially announces the end of combat operations in Iraq after more than seven years of war.
2011.- The storm “La Niña” begins in Colombia and causes more than 165 deaths and almost 900,000 victims in three and a half months.
2015.- Pope Francis grants freedom from the sin of abortion during the Jubilee of Mercy (from December 8, 2015 to September 20, 2016).
2016.- “Taking Caracas”: The Venezuelan opposition takes to the streets to demand a recall referendum against President Nicolás Maduro in order to overthrow Chavismo, which has been in power since 1999.
2017.- Hurricane Harvey causes the worst flooding in U.S. history as it passes through Texas, killing more than 63 people and evacuating more than 30,000 people.
2019.- Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier apologizes to Poland for the damage caused by National Socialism on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War.
2019. – An official report shows that the fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August tripled the number of fires in the same month in 2018.
2020.- The Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf, National Literary Prize of Chile.
2021.- The grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo launch the #Volveapensarlo campaign on social networks to find the missing grandchildren (about 300).
– Roberto Benigni receives the Golden Lion of Honor at the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival.
BIRTH
1453.- Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and Enríquez de Aguilar, the great captain.
1804.- Mariana Pineda, Spanish heroine.
1881.- José Pijoán, Spanish architect and art historian.
1906.- Joaquín Balaguer, seven-time president of the Dominican Republic.
1922.- Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor.
DEATHS
1970.- Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize 1952.
1986.- Jorge Alessandri, former Chilean president.
2008.- Edwin Guthman, American journalist.
2016.- Jon Polito, American actor.
2020.-John Sarkis Najarian, American surgeon, pioneer of organ transplantation.
– Erick Morillo, Colombian-American DJ and music producer.
2021.- Adalberto Álvarez, Cuban musician.
Source: own and agencies.