2024 – HARDWARE DAY. National Hardware Store Day is celebrated in commemoration of the birth in 1905 of the Association of Hardware Stores, Paint Stores and Bazaars of the Argentine Republic.
Today known as the Chamber of Hardware and Related Businesses of the Argentine Republic (Cafara), the association brings together the hardware sector and companies in the country linked to the activity.
“The aim of the entity is the defence and development of the hardware retail trade. The vision is that Argentine SMEs and Mini SMEs can develop their activities to the maximum of their commercial and professional potential,” the entity explains on its website.
More anniversaries
1859 – JEAN JAURÈS. Jean Jaurès, historian, teacher and socialist leader, founder of the newspaper “L’Humanité” and defender of pacifist positions, was born in the French commune of Castres. He was assassinated in July 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War.
Speaker. Jean Jaurès, during a speech delivered in Lyon in 1914.
1920 – LEON FERRARI. Visual artist León Ferrari was born in Buenos Aires. His work was aimed at denouncing abuses of power and intolerance in society. At the time of his death in 2013, he was one of the five most provocative and important visual artists in the world, according to the American newspaper The New York Times.
León Ferrari developed an artistic career that had no pause. His extensive production was characterized by irreverence and constant criticism of power and religion.
1940 – EDUARDO GALEANO. Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano, one of the most influential intellectuals of the left and Latin American literature, was born in Montevideo. His best-known books, Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Memory of Fire (1986), were translated into twenty languages.
1949 – JOSE PEKERMAN. Former footballer and coach José Pekerman was born in the Entre Ríos municipality of Villa Domínguez. He was a world champion with the Argentine under-20 team in the tournaments of Qatar 1995, Malaysia 1997 and Argentina 2001. He is the most successful coach in the history of the under-20 world tournaments.
Jose Pekerman. (AP)
1950 – RACING CLUB. Racing Club’s “Presidente Perón” stadium, also known as “El alambre de Avellaneda”, is inaugurated. It was in the match that Racing beat Vélez Sarsfield 1-0 with a goal by Llamil Simes, a victory that took them to the top of the 1950 Championship.
President Peron Stadium. (AP)
1971 – JUAN D. PERÓN. General and former president Juan Domingo Perón receives at his Madrid residence in Puerta de Hierro the remains of his wife, María Eva Duarte, who had been kidnapped from the headquarters of the General Confederation of Labor and smuggled out of Argentina after the coup in 1955.
Juan Domingo Peron
1991 – FRANK CAPRA. Italian-American filmmaker Frank Capra, winner of three Oscars and director of the film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” considered a cinema classic, dies in the town of La Quinta (California, USA).
1997 – MARTIN PALERMO. Striker Martín Palermo makes his debut for Boca Juniors in Boca’s 1-0 victory over Cruzeiro of Brazil in the 1997 South American Super Cup match played at La Bombonera stadium. With 236 goals, Palermo is the top scorer in Boca’s history.
2009 – MICHAEL JACKSON. The remains of American musician Michael Jackson are interred in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery 70 days after the death of the popular pop music star.
Michael Jackson will have his biopic, who will play him? / Archive
2014 – GYMNASTICS – STUDENTS. Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata and Estudiantes de La Plata tied 0-0 in a match of the 2014 Copa Sudamericana, the first derby between La Plata and Estudiantes in an international tournament.
Other anniversaries
- 1539.- Pope Paul III approved the first statutes of the Society of Jesus and confirmed them the following year by papal bull.
- 1770.- The King of Spain, Charles III, declares the Grenadier March as the Royal or Honor March, which, by custom and popular roots, will be established as the National Anthem under the reign of Isabel II.
- 1783.- Signing, in Paris, of the peace treaty that ends the War of Independence of the American colonies from Great Britain and George III renounces his overseas possessions.
- 1939.- Following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Great Britain and France declare war on that country, while Belgium declares neutrality.
- 1943.- The Government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio signs the surrender of Italy to the Allied forces, during the Second World War.
- 1953.- The “Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms”, drawn up by the Council of Europe and inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, comes into force.
- 1971.- The Emirate of Qatar declares its independence and ceases to be a British protectorate under the control of Emir Ahmed bin Ali al Thani.
- .- Argentine Colonel Héctor Cabanillas hands over the embalmed body of former First Lady Eva Duarte de Perón, Evita, (who died in 1952) in Madrid to her former husband, General Juan Domingo Perón, former President of Argentina, after being missing for 16 years.
- 1980.- Chinese President Hua Goufeng confirms his resignation and announces Zhao Ziyang as his successor.
- 1982.- The Mafia assassinates General Carlo Alberto Della Chiesa, in charge of fighting terrorism and the Mafia in Italy, and his wife in Palermo.
- 1992.- The UN Conference on Disarmament adopts, in Geneva, the draft Convention for the total elimination of chemical weapons.
- 1994.- China and Russia agree to control nuclear arms and stop targeting each other with missiles.
- 1996.- US launches two attacks with 44 Tomahawk cruise missiles against military targets in Iraq in retaliation for Iraqi anti-Kurdish intervention in the ‘exclusion zone’.
- 1998.- A Swissair MD-11 plane explodes in mid-air off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing 229 people.
- 2004.- Twenty-four countries sign the Amazon River Declaration in Peru to reduce poverty and promote ecological tourism.
- 2009.- Singer Michael Jackson is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California, two months after his death.
- 2011.- Monsoon rains leave Pakistan with worst flooding in its history, with 350 dead.
- 2016.- The Chinese Parliament ratifies the agreement reached at the 2015 Paris climate summit (COP21). It was also ratified by US President Barack Obama during his visit to China for the G20 Summit.
- 2017.- North Korea tests its most powerful atomic bomb to date, a hydrogen bomb that can be fitted to an intercontinental-range missile.
- 2019.- The British Parliament has approved a law against a hard Brexit and against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which would prevent a no-deal exit from the EU.
- 2020.- Researchers sequence the genome of the red gorgonian, a Mediterranean coral threatened by climate change. An important step forward in understanding the impact of global warming on marine biodiversity.
- 2021.- US President Joe Biden orders the declassification of secret documents from the FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
BIRTHS
- 1875.- Ferdinand Porsche, founder of Porsche.
- 1884.- General Francisco J. Múgica, Mexican politician and ideological mentor of President Lázaro Cárdenas.
- 1898.- Federico Carlos Sainz de Robles, Spanish writer.
- 1926.- Irene Papas, Greek actress.
- 1928.- Renán Flores Jaramillo, Ecuadorian writer.
- 1933.- Antonio Quilis, Spanish linguist and professor.
- 1944.- Daniel Giralt Miracle, Spanish professor and art critic.
- 1951.- Luis Castells Arteche, Spanish history professor.
- 1959.- José Luis Laguía, Spanish cyclist.
- 1965.- Charlie Sheen, American actor.
- 1988.- Carla Suárez, Spanish tennis player.
DEATHS
- 1658.- Oliver Cromwell, British statesman.
- 1883.- Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist.
- 1948.- Edvard Benes, former president and co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic.
- 1991.- Frank Capra, Italian-American film director.
- 1996.- Estanislao Aranzadi, Spanish editor.
- 1998.- Espartaco Santoni, Venezuelan actor and producer.
- 2010.- Mike Edwards, British musician.
- 2012.- Sun-Myung Moon, founder of the “Unification Church”, Moon Sect.
- 2016.- Miguel Ángel Bustillo, Spanish footballer.
- 2017.- Ultiminio ‘Sugar’ Ramos, Cuban former world boxing champion.
- 2019.- Peter Lindbergh, German photographer.
- 2021.- Enrique Molina, Cuban actor, 2020 National TV Award winner.
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