Why is it celebrated and which are the most used in Argentina?

2023-06-30 03:11:00

SOCIAL NETWORKS DAY. Social Networks Day is celebrated with the aim of making them a tool that allows everyone the largest and best means of communication and information.

Its origin dates from 2010, when the founder of Mashable (an Internet news blog), Peter Cashmore, proposed using a day to celebrate the advancement of communication and entertainment achieved by social networks.

Social Networks Day: which are the most used in Argentina

According to the Internet Observatory in Argentina (OIA), 83% of Argentine Internet users (which are 79% of the population) connect to the web every day.

In addition, this percentage spends eight hours in front of the computer, four hours using the smartphone and shows a fairly marked tendency towards the use of social networks.

According to data published by the company WeAreSocial in 2022, on average, Argentines spend 3 hours and 11 minutes per day using social networks. These are the most used platforms:

YouTube: 95%.WhatsApp: 92%.Facebook: 90%.Instagram: 76%.FB Messenger: 62%.Twitter: 52%.Pinterest: 44%.LinkedIn: 31%.TikTok: 13%.

asteroid day

The United Nations General Assembly approved resolution A/RES/71/90 on December 6, 2016, in which June 30 is declared International Asteroid Day “to celebrate each year at the international level the anniversary of the Tunguska impact, in Siberia (Russian Federation), which occurred on June 30, 1908, and to increase public awareness of the danger of asteroid impact.

As reported by the UN, the International Day will make it possible to “raise public awareness regarding the risks of asteroid impact and inform regarding the communication measures in case of crisis that would be adopted worldwide if there was a credible threat of impact from an object close to the earth”.

This image shows 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. (ESO/ Europa Press/DPA)

They also explained that comets and asteroids circulating in orbits close to our planet, also known as near-Earth objects, can cause catastrophes on the globe. According to the NASA center dedicated to the study of these objects, more than 16,000 asteroids have been identified in the vicinity of Earth.

Ephemeris: the Tunguska bolide

On June 30, 1908, the asteroid Tunguska crashed in Siberia (Russian Federation), causing the largest recorded impact in history.

That morning in 1908, the asteroid impact devastated an area of ​​2,200 kilometers and destroyed more than 80,000 trees near the Tunguska River, in the Siberian taiga.

The so-called “Tunguska event” released 300 times the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, left no craters on the ground, and sparked all sorts of exotic theories, including that the explosion was caused by an alien spacecraft.

This is how the trees remained in the Tunguska area, according to the Image taken in the Kulik expedition in 1929. Image of how the buildings in the area remained following the Tunguska phenomenon. (video capture)

More ephemeris

1905 – ALBERT EINSTEIN. Shortly following graduating as a PhD in Physics, Albert Einstein published four scientific investigations in the German magazine Annalen der Physik, including the Theory of Relativity. The document was donated by Einstein to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1925, on the occasion of its inauguration.

Albert Einstein. (Pixabay.com)

1934 – GRAF ZEPPELIN. The German airship Graf Zeppelin, 240 meters long, flies over the city of Buenos Aires and lands on the grounds of Campo de Mayo. Tens of thousands of people watched him go by from squares, avenue intersections, balconies and terraces.

1936 – GONE WITH THE WIND. The novel “Gone with the Wind” by the American writer and journalist Margaret Mitchell, a classic of American literature and one of the best-selling books, is published in the United States. Her adaptation to the cinema made her an icon of universal culture.

1969 – AUGUSTO VANDOR. The trade unionist Augusto Timoteo Vandor is assassinated with five shots in his office at the headquarters of the Unión Obrera Metalúrgica in the city of Buenos Aires. In 1971, the guerrilla organization Ejército Nacional Revolucionario claimed responsibility for the crime.

Syndicalist. Augusto Timoteo Vandor (Clarin).

1970 – LEONARDO SBARAGLIA. Actor Leonardo Sbaraglia, winner of two Martín Fierro awards, a Goya and a Silver Condor, was born in Buenos Aires. He acted in the film “La noche de los lápizes”, which marked his film debut, and was noted for his work in “Wild Tales” and “Fierce Tango”, among other films.

Leonardo Sbaraglia.

1985 – ARGENTINE SELECTION. The Argentine team qualified for the World Cup in Mexico ’86 by drawing 2-2 with Peru at the Monumental stadium with goals from Pedro Pasculli and Ricardo Gareca. It was the last of Ubaldo Fillol in the goal of the “albiceleste” team.

2003 – MARIA G. EPUMER. At the age of 39, the guitarist and singer-songwriter María Gabriela Epumer, who participated in ten albums by rock star Charly García, dies in Buenos Aires. Epumer was part of the band Viuda e Hijas de Roque Enroll.

Maria Gabriela Epumer. (Telam / File)

2006 – THE PAPER OF LEHMANN. Argentina is eliminated from the 2006 World Cup in a penalty shootout with Germany following drawing 1-1. The German goalkeeper, Jens Lehmann, saved the penalties executed by Roberto Ayala and Esteban Cambiasso thanks to a “machete” that indicated in which direction the Argentine players used to kick.

2022 – DAY OF THE NAVAL PREFECTURE. The Day of the Naval Prefecture is celebrated in commemoration of the date of the 1810 decree of the First Board drafted by Mariano Moreno that designates Colonel Martín Jacobo Thompson as the first port captain of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

Other ephemeris

1520.- Hernán Cortés suffers a great defeat at the hands of the Aztecs when he leaves the city of Tenochtitlán at night, known as “La Noche Triste”.

1732.- A Spanish armed expedition, commanded by the Count of Montemar, conquers the Plaza de Orán from the Turks, which was in the power of Spain until 1792.

1859.- The French tightrope walker Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls for the first time on a tightrope some 335 meters long and before the gaze of 25,000 spectators.

1862.- The last chapters of “Les miserables” by Victor Hugo are published.

1871.- In Guatemala, a liberal revolution led by Miguel García Granados and Justo Rufino Barrios overthrows the government of President Vicente Cerna. The first becomes provisional president for two years.

1887.- The Emperor of Brazil Pedro II, ill, embarks for Europe and begins the third period of regency of Princess Isabel.

1900.- Great fire at the docks of Hoboken, in New Jersey -in front of New York-, which causes 326 deaths and serious property damage.

1908.- The passage of a meteorite devastates some 2,000 square kilometers of forest in central Siberia, an event known as the “Tunguska event”, which released an energy of regarding 185 times the Hiroshima bomb. The UN chooses that date as International Asteroid Day.

1934.- Adolf Hitler liquidates the extremist faction of his party, the SA, whose chief, Ernst Rohm, and his main collaborators are executed on the “Night of the Long Knives”.

1950.- Korean War: US President Harry Truman orders the dispatch of ground forces to prevent the creation of a communist state following the invasion of the south by forces from the north.

1951.- Delegates from 34 nations, meeting in Frankfurt (FRG), begin the Congress in which the creation of the new Socialist International (IS) is formalized.

1960.- Independence of the Belgian Congo, later renamed Zaire (1971) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997).

1966.- The National Organization for Women, the largest feminist group in that country, is founded in the United States.

1969.- The Argentine union leader Augusto Timoteo Vandor, who was committed to a “Peronism without Perón”, is assassinated by five armed men in his office of the Metallurgical Workers Union (UOM), in Buenos Aires.

1971.- The three crew members of the Soviet spacecraft “Soyuz 11” die due to the depressurization of the capsule shortly before landing. They were pioneers in inhabiting the first orbital station, “Salyut 1”, for 23 days.

1980.- Vigdis Fihnbogadottir is elected president of Iceland. First woman who by vote accedes to the head of a European State.

– Pope John Paul II begins a nearly two-week trip to Brazil in which he visits 13 cities.

1989.- A Military Junta headed by General Omar Hasan Ahmad al Bashir seizes power in Sudan hours following carrying out a coup once morest the government of Sadek Al Mahdi.

1992.- The Russian government of Boris Yeltsin approves a broad program to deepen economic reforms, which includes the privatization of companies.

1995.- The Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany approves the sending of troops and combat planes to Bosnia, a decision that breaks half a century without military intervention abroad.

1996.- The leader of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Leonel Fernández, wins the presidential elections in the second round by beating José Francisco Peña of the Revolutionary Party (PRD) by 2.5 points.

2002.- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, from the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), prevails over indigenous leader Evo Morales in the presidential elections in Bolivia. Not getting any on 51

2004.- New restrictions of the US government of George W. Bush once morest Cuba come into force, which limit the trips of Cuban exiles and the sending of remittances to their relatives.

2005.- The Spanish Congress approves the law on marriage between people of the same sex.

2008.- Microsoft stops selling Windows XP.

2010.- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer declares bankruptcy and closes its studies following almost 90 years of success.

2019.- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, are on the dividing line that separates the two Koreas, which have been at war for almost 70 years.

2021.- The Spanish chef José Andrés and the NGO World Central Kitchen, Princess of Asturias Award for Concord.

.- The American actor Bill Cosby is released from prison following the annulment of his 2018 conviction for sexual assault.

.- The José Martí Library in Havana is declared a National Monument of Cuba.

BIRTHS

1906.- Anthony Mann, American filmmaker.

1909.- Juan Bosch, former president of the Dominican Republic.

1911.- Milosz Czeslaw, Polish poet and Nobel prize winner 1980.

1917.- Susan Hayward, American actress.

1939.- José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet.

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1966.- Mike Tyson, American heavyweight world champion boxer.

1975.- Ralf Schumacher, German Formula 1 driver.

1985.- Michael Phelps, American swimmer.

DEATHS

1959.- José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician.

1987.- Federico Mompou, Spanish composer.

2001.- Chet Atkins, American guitarist.

2009.- Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer.

2012.- Isaac Shamir, former Prime Minister of Israel.

2017.- Simone Veil, French politician.EFE

2021.- Donald Rumsfeld, former US Secretary of Defense.

.- Raúl de la Fuente, Mexican dubbing actor.

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