2023-07-16 03:11:00
2003 – CELIA CRUZ. At the age of 77, the Cuban singer Celia Cruz (Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad de la Santísima Trinidad Cruz Alfonso) died in the town of Fort Lee, in New Jersey, United States.
Recognized as the “queen of salsa”, Cruz was the winner of two Grammy awards and five Latin Grammys, among others. In addition, in Córdoba she is famous for being one of the most famous Instituto fans in the world, along with personalities such as Jairo, Cacho Buenaventura, Bruno Lábaque and Jean Carlos.
Celia Cruz, the “queen of salsa”
Born in Havana in 1925, Cruz emigrated to the United States in 1961 following the Cuban revolution, where she established herself as one of the greatest references of salsa. In February 2021, she was chosen to appear on the 25-cent coin beginning in 2024, making her the first Afro-Latina to be selected for this tribute in North America.
This July 16, the singer’s admiring public will be able to visit her mausoleum in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the New York Bronx where her remains rest, in honor of the 20th anniversary of her death.
Celia Cruz, the most famous Instituto fan in the world (Photo: AP).
Spokesmen for the Woodlawn, where the former Fania star rests with her husband, trumpeter Pedro Knight, who died in 2007, detailed that the place will be open between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and music sung by Cruz will play.
The tomb of the interpreter of “Life is a carnival” is among the most visited in the Woodlawn, which houses some 1,400 majestic private mausoleums.
Owner of a privileged voice and an eminent figure in salsa, Celia is revered in the United States, moreover, for her explicit position once morest the communist revolution that took power on the island in January 1959.
1969: liftoff of apollo 11
NASA launches from the John F Kennedy Space Center, the Apollo 11 ship, crewed by Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins with the mission of reaching the Moon. Armstrong, commander of the ship, became the first human to set foot on the Moon, accompanied by Aldrin.
Neil Armstrong, commander of the ship, became the first human to set foot on the Moon, accompanied by Edwin Aldrin, four days later.
Infographics The Voice of the Interior.
Other ephemeris
1914 – GUILLERMO DIVITO. Caricaturist, humorist and editor José Antonio Guillermo Divito, founder and director of the popular magazine Rico Tipo, which sold 350,000 weekly copies, was born in Buenos Aires. “Las chicas de Divito” and “El otro yo del doctor Merengue” are the most popular comic strips by Divito, the creator of a revolution in Argentine graphic humor between the ’40s and ’60s.
Jose Antonio Guillermo Divito. (Web)
1934 – THOMAS ELOY MARTINEZ. Born in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, writer, screenwriter and journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez, winner of the 2008 Silver Condor Prize a 36 languages.
Tomas Eloy Martinez.
1943 – RUBEN RADA. The Uruguayan singer, percussionist, composer and actor Rubén Rada (Omar Rubén Rada Silva) was born in Montevideo, who acted in seven films and recorded more than fifty records.
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About 260 people witnessed the test, none within a distance of less than 9 kilometers (AP / File).
1948 – RUBEN BLADES. Panamanian singer-songwriter Rubén Blades, winner of three Grammy Awards and five Latin Grammy Awards, was born in Panama City. He has recorded more than 35 salsa and Caribbean music albums. He was a presidential candidate in the 1994 Panamanian elections, in which he came in third with 20 percent of the vote.
1950 – BRAZIL 1 URUGUAY 2. The Uruguayan soccer team wins its second world championship by beating Brazil 2-1 in the final played at a Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, packed with regarding 100,000 Brazilians. Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia scored the Uruguayan goals while Albino Friaca had scored for the local team in the Uruguayan “Maracanazo” in the 50 World Cup in Brazil.
2022 – ARGENTINE INTERESTS. The Day of Argentine Interests at Sea is celebrated, instituted by law in 2003 in commemoration of the date of 1876 on which Vice Admiral Segundo Storni was born, who traveled the world with the Presidente Sarmiento frigate and developed a teaching career in the Navy Argentina.
More ephemeris
1212.- Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (Jaén). Alfonso VIII’s armies of Castile, Navarre and Aragon defeated the Almohads and thus prevented the spread of Islam.
1661.- The Bank of Stockholm, by Johan Palmstruck, the first entity to issue paper money in Europe.
1782.- Premiere of the opera “The kidnapping in the Seraglio”, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar,t at the Viennese Burgtheater.
1849.- The priest Antonio María Claret founded in Vic, Barcelona, the Congregation of the Missionaries Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, “the Claretians”.
1884.- The first edition of the women’s Wimbledon tennis tournament begins in London, which Maud Watson wins following beating her sister Lilian.
1898.- Spanish troops sign the armistice and capitulation of Santiago de Cuba with the Americans, who enter the city the next day.
1920.- The Treaty of Saint-Germain en-Laye enters into force, which agrees to peace between the allies and Austria, following World War I, and dismembers the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1931.- The Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, promulgates the first Constitution, which changes the absolute monarchy for a bicameral constitutional system.
1941.- II World War: German forces occupy Smolensko (Russia).
1955.- The primate of the Hungarian Church, Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, who has been serving a life sentence since 1949, goes under house arrest for his health.
1965.- Official inauguration of the Mont Blanc tunnel, 11.6 kilometers long, in the Alps between France and Italy.
1973.- Alexander Butterfield reveals to the Senate Watergate Committee the existence of conversations recorded by US President Richard Nixon.
1980.- Juan Antonio Samaranch is elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Moscow.
1988.- The American Florence Griffith-Joyner establishes the world record of the 100 smooth (10.49), in Indianapolis (USA).
1990.- The Ukrainian Parliament declares the sovereignty of the second most important republic of the USSR.
1995.- Jeff Bezos opens Amazon to sell books over the Internet on a project started a year earlier as Cadabra.
1999.- John Kennedy Jr., son of the former US president, died in an aviation accident when the plane he was flying crashed. His wife, Carolyn Bessette, and his sister-in-law Lauren are killed.
2000.- Florentino Pérez wins his first elections for the Presidency of Real Madrid, in which he prevails over Lorenzo Sanz.
2001.- Jacques Rogge, a Belgian surgeon, is elected president of the IOC, succeeding Juan Antonio Samaranch.
2002.- The IRA terrorist organization apologizes to the families of the more than 600 people murdered in 30 years in Ulster.
2004.- 91 children die and a hundred are injured in a fire at a school in Kumbakonam (India).
2008.- The Kings of Spain and Saudi Arabia inaugurate the International Conference for Dialogue between Muslims, Jews and Christians, in Madrid.
2015.- The Spanish Congress reforms the abortion law that prevents minors from terminating their pregnancy without parental permission. In force from September 23.
2019.- The European Parliament confirms the German Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission.
BIRTHS
1486.- Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter.
1723.- Joshua Reynolds, English painter.
1796.- Jean Baptiste Corot, French pintor.
1872.- Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer.
1907.- Barbara Stanwyck, American actress.
1911.- Ginger Rogers, American dancer and actress.
1929.- Carmelo Alonso Bernaola, Spanish composer.
1959.- Angeles Caso, Spanish writer and journalist.
1964.- Miguel Indurain, Spanish excicist.
1974.- Laura Espido Freire, Spanish writer.
1988.- Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer.
1989.- Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer.
DEATHS
1896.- Edmond de Goncourt, French escritor.
1985.- Heinrich Boll, German writer and Nobel 1972.
1989.- Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor.
1989.- Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet.
1990.- Miguel Muñoz, ex-soccer player and Spanish coach.
1991.- Robert Motherwell, American painter.
2002.- Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and former Secretary General of NATO.
2004.- Charles William Sweeney, pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
2015.- Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan soccer player and hero of the “Maracanazo”.
2019.- Rosa María Britton, Panamanian writer.
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