Good day
So be it!
The Rooster Already Crowed
It’s already THURSDAY, February 15
Greetings from the South of Monterrey
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Saints: Jovita, Severo
World Childhood Cancer Day
World Anthropology Day
1564 Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Italian Renaissance astronomer, philosopher, mathematician and physicist, considered “father of modern astronomy”.
1710 Louis XV, king of France between 1715 and 1774, is born. Known as “The Well Beloved.”
1762 The mail between Monterrey and Mexico City begins to operate, with postal service.
1775 Born in the Valle de las Labores, today Ramos Arizpe, Coah. Miguel Ramos Arizpe, defender of federalism and precursor of the free municipality, whom Congress declared Benemérito de la Patria.
1858 The interim president of Mexico, Benito Juárez, establishes his provisional government in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco.
1899 Banker Patricio Milmo dies in Monterrey, NL.
1905 The American lawyer and writer of historical novels, Lewis Wallace, author of “Ben-Hur,” a novel published for the first time in 1880 and made into a film on several occasions, dies in Crawfordsville (USA).
1907 The American actor of Cuban descent César Romero is born, who goes down in history for his character as “The Joker” in the “Batman” series.
1910 Irena Sendler, a nurse who during the German occupation of her country, saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw “Ghetto” from dying in the Nazi extermination camps, was born in Warsaw, Poland.
1913 The Minister of Spain in Mexico, Cloguen, meets with President Madero to request his resignation, on behalf of the diplomatic corps accredited in Mexico.
1925 Julián Carrillo premieres at the Teatro Principal, El sonido 13, which breaks with the traditional musical system, based on 12 sounds.
1949 Francisco Maturana, Colombian footballer and technical director, is born; recognized for being a member of Atlético Nacional de Medellín that won the first Copa Libertadores for a Colombian club.
1950 Walt Disney’s animated film, “Cinderella,” based on the story by Charles Perrault, is released.
1954 American cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of “The Simpsons,” is born.
1965 Nat “King” Cole, American jazz pianist and singer, dies. He became the first African American to have his own radio show and in 1950 he repeated the feat, this time on a television show.
1966 Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and guerrilla, dies. His sociological research led him to become familiar with both urban and rural social structures.
1968 Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer, actress, composer, arranger, illustrator and music video director, is born.
1989 The Soviet army leaves Kabul, ending the Soviet-Afghan War.
2013 Asteroid 2012 DA14 passed near Earth.
2014 Federico Campbell, Mexican writer, journalist, editor and essayist, dies.
2015 Sergio Blanco dies, who together with his wife Estíbaliz Uranga formed the popular duet “Sergio y Estíbaliz”.
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