© Arnaldo Pampillon
In 2014 the poet Juan Gelman died in Mexico.
In the January 14th anniversary These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1900. In Rome it opens Toscaby Giacomo Puccini. One of the most celebrated operas by its author, it is famous for the torture scene in the second act: Baron Scarpia orders the painter Cavaradossi to be tormented so that his lover, the singer Floria Tosca, reveals where he hid an adept of Napoleon. Tosca It is one of the most performed operas in the repertoire since then.
● 1957. The greatest male star of classic Hollywood dies: Humphrey Bogart. Cancer of the esophagus ends your life twenty days following turning 57. He starred in countless classics, such as Casablanca, its rereading that is Have and have not (during which he met Lauren Bacall, his last wife), High Sierra, Desperate hours and, in particular, a series of films with John Huston as director, among them The Maltese Falcon, The treasure of the Sierra Madre Y The African Queen, which earned him the Oscar. In his later years he was seen in The barefoot countess, The Caine Mutiny, Sabrina, Desperate hours, We are not angels Y the fall of an idol, his final work.
● 1973. Elvis Presley stars in one of his most memorable shows: Aloha from Hawaii. The King of Rock and Roll sings in Honolulu for an hour and a half to benefit the fight once morest cancer. The televised show is a critical and public success and revitalizes his career.
● 1976. Juan D´Arienzo dies. The King of Compass was 75 years old and It was an emblem of the tango of the Guardia Vieja.
● 2014. Poet Juan Gelman dies in Mexico. He was 83 years old. Born in 1930, he is one of the great Argentine poetry of the 20th century. His first book appeared in 1956: Violin and other issues. Titles such as Gothan, Ox cholera, Wage of the wicked, Dibaxu, Country that was will be Y Mundar. He had to go into exile and suffered the murder of his son Marcelo and his daughter-in-law María Claudia Iruretagoyena, pregnant at the time of the kidnapping. He was able to meet once more in Uruguay with his granddaughter Macarena in 2000. Together with Osvaldo Bayer he wrote Exile, and with Mara La Madrid, Nor the skinny forgiveness of God. He obtained the Cervantes Prize, the highest award for Spanish literature, in 2007, and wrote until his death in PageI12.
● 2016. Pancreatic cancer ends the life of the English actor Alan Rickman one month before turning 70. He is remembered for his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter saga, and as the villain Hans Gruber in Hard to Kill. He was also seen in movies like Robin Hood, Sense and feelings Y Love Actually.
In addition, it is the World Logic Day, declared by Unesco, in memory of the anniversary of the death of Kurt Gödel and the birth of Alfred Tarski.
