Society
Events that occurred in Argentina and the world
● 1939. Thirteen young women between the ages of 29 and 18 are shot in Madrid after being sentenced by a War Council. The Franco regime, which has just won the Spanish Civil War, sentences them for the attack on a soldier. Dozens of people are tried and sentenced, but attention is drawn to the so-called Thirteen Roses, militant in the Unified Socialist Youth and the Communist Party. The age of majority was then established in Spain at 23 years, with which nine of the thirteen shot were minors.
● 1945. Juan Sasturain was born in the Buenos Aires town of Adolfo Gonzales Chaves. He studied Literature at the UBA and worked as a journalist. It went through media such as Clarín, Humor and PáginaI12. In the newspaper La Voz he published his novel Manual de perdedores in installments. Other novels are: Sand in the shoes, The fight continues, I would pay not to see you, Doubtful Noriega and The Last Hammett. He explored his soccer vein in La patria transpirada, a book that covers the course of Argentina in the World Cups. He has written several volumes of short stories and youth novels. He was a scriptwriter for the Perramus comic strip, one of Alberto Breccia's masterpieces. He directed the magazine Fierro, hosted the TV program Ver para leer and is currently director of the National Library.
● 1966. The Beatles leap into the void with the release of Revolver, their seventh studio album. The album incorporates the recording studio as one more instrument, with songs riddled with sound effects, impossible to reproduce live with the technology of the time, and just a few weeks before the band leaves the tours.
● 1967. Pink Floyd's recording career begins. The band releases their first album: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which translates as The piper at the gates of dawn. The group consists of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason. The album is one of the first psychedelic rock records. It is the only LP of the group in which David Gilmour did not participate, who joined at the beginning of 1968. Barrett would leave the group shortly after, in the midst of drug problems and tensions with his companions.
● 1984. In Céligny, Switzerland, Richard Burton dies. He was 58 years old and succumbed to a brain hemorrhage. Born in Wales in 1925, he was one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. He stood out for his roles in films such as The Sacred Mantle, Cleopatra, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Where Eagles Dare and Equus. Seven times nominated for an Oscar, he never lifted the golden statuette. In the 1960s, he married Elizabeth Taylor. They were the most famous couple in the world. They separated and remarried in 1974. That second marriage barely lasted two years.
● 2000. At the age of 86, British actor Alec Guinness dies. His career took off after World War II, with movies like Gold Bars and The Quintet of Death. For The Bridge on the River Kwai he won the Best Actor Oscar. He was Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, in exchange for a percentage of the profits, which earns his heirs more money per year than all his other films combined.
● 2012. Chavela Vargas dies in Cuernavaca. She was born in 1919 in San Joaquín, Costa Rica, as María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano. A symbol of ranchera music, her career took her forward in Mexico. His career was marred by alcoholism. It had a greening in its last years, with various recognitions. The presence of his songs in Pedro Almodóvar films helped his popularity in old age.
● 2014. Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announce the restitution of the identity of the grandson of Estela de Carlotto, the president of the entity. A 36-year search ends with the appearance of Ignacio Montoya Carlotto. He is the 114th grandson to regain his identity. The son of Walmir Oscar Montoya and Laura Carlotto, his mother gave birth to him in a military hospital on June 26, 1978. She had been kidnapped in November 1977 and passed through the clandestine detention center known as "La Cacha." His remains were identified in 1985, and those of Montoya in 2009. The country is shocked by the appearance of Carlotto's grandson, who has lived all his life in Olavarría and is a musician.
● 2018. American writer Toni Morrison dies at the age of 88. She had been born in Ohio as Chloe Ardelia Wofford. She graduated in Philology, was a university professor and became the first black fiction editor at Random House. His first novel was Ojos Azul, from 1970. It was followed by Sula, The Song of Solomon, The Island of the Knights and the acclaimed Beloved, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Jazz, from 1992, preceded delivery, a year later , of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other later works: Paradise, Love, A blessing, Return and Children's night.