Get to know the anniversaries of this Thursday, August 8

Get to know the anniversaries of this Thursday, August 8 – GRUPO DERF

August 8th anniversaries: what is commemorated today?

• 1883 – EMILIANO ZAPATAEmiliano Zapata Salazar, one of the most important actors in the Mexican Revolution and a symbol of peasant resistance, was born in the town of Anenecuilco (Morelos, Mexico). He commanded the “Liberating Army of the South” and was called “Caudillo del Sur”.
• 1937 – JORGE CAFRUNE. The folk singer Jorge Antonio Cafrune was born in the town of Perico, Jujuy. He was one of the most popular singers of his time and promoter of great artists such as José Larralde and Mercedes Sosa. He was also a researcher, collector and disseminator of native culture.
• 1951 – CHACO PROVINCELaw 14,037 was passed to transform the territory of Chaco into a new province that was created in December 1952, during a constituent assembly that dictated its constitution and decided to call it “Presidente Perón”, a name that was replaced after the civil-military coup of 1955.
• 1956 – CECILIA ROTHActress Cecilia Roth (Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin) was born in Buenos Aires. She has won fourteen awards, including two Martín Fierro and two Goyas. She has made 37 films, including the successful What Did I Do to Deserve This and All About My Mother, directed by the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar.
• 1963 – ROBBERY OF THE CENTURY. A gang steals £2.6m, the equivalent of £40m, when they attack the Glasgow-London mail train on a railway bridge near the English town of Aylesbury. Only a small part of the loot from the “robbery of the century”, as the British press called it, was recovered.
• 1969 – ABBEY ROAD. The cover photo of Abbey Road, the twelfth studio album by the British pop rock band The Beatles, is taken in which its four members cross Abbey Road on the outskirts of London, near the recording studios of the same name. Abbey Road, released in 1969, was the last studio album by the legendary band.
• 1974 – RICHARD NIXON. US President Richard Nixon announces from the Oval Office of the White House that he is resigning from office following the Watergate scandal, sparked by spying and theft of documents from the offices of the opposition Democratic Party in the Watergate complex in Washington.
• 1981 – ROGER FEDERER. Roger Federer, one of the best tennis players in the history of the sport, was born in the Swiss city of Basel. He has won twenty Grand Slam tournaments. He was number one in the world for a record time of 310 weeks. He is currently ranked fourth in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings.
• 2010 – COLOMBIA VENEZUELA. Following mutual accusations of guerrilla activities in border areas, Colombia and Venezuela have reestablished diplomatic relations with the mediation of Argentine President Néstor Kirchner, in his capacity as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).
• 2024 – FEMALE ORGASM. Since 2006, World Female Orgasm Day has been celebrated, promoted by José Arimateia Dantas Lacerda, a councilor in the Brazilian town of Esperantina, following a study that showed that 28% of women in the state of Piauí were unable to obtain pleasure from sex as a “public health problem.” The celebration was popularized through messages on social networks.

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