2024-08-25 09:30:00
2024 – Barber’s Day. World Hairdressers Day is celebrated to commemorate the death of King Louis IX of France in 1270, who during his reign declared his personal hairdresser a “free man”, thus raising his social rank.
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Louis IX of France, also known as Saint Louis of France, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270.
At that time, the hairdressing function was performed by “commoners”, who were obliged to comb the wigs used by noble figures.
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However, King Louis IX decided to recognize the work of his personal hairdresser, raising his social “status”. Thereafter, the profession is no longer considered “civilian”.
Louis IX of France. (online/public domain)
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Meanwhile, Argentina also started celebrating this day in 1877.
At the time, hairdresser and theater director Domingo Guillén organized a series of celebrations that eventually led to the founding of the Barbers and Hairdressers Association.
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More anniversaries
1594 – St. Louis. Luis Jufré de Loaiza y Meneses, a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator of the Cuyo region, founded the city of San Luis, the capital of the current province of the same name, which he called San Luis de Loyola Nueva Medina de Riooseco. Giuffre also founded the city of San Juan, the capital of San Juan.
1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, one of the most influential intellectuals in Western culture and author of “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” philosopher, poet and linguist, died in Weimar, Germany , died at the age of 55.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (Wikimedia Commons)
1930 – Sean Connery. Sean Connery, a Scottish actor and film producer born in Edinburgh, has won an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards and three Golden Globe Awards for his role as James in the James Bond film. ·One of the actors of James Bond. He has shot more than 70 films.
Sean Connery.
1949 – Gene Simmons. Musician, composer and singer Chaim Witz, better known as Gene Simmons, co-founded American rock music with American guitarist Paul Stanley The bassist and vocalist of the band Kiss, was born in the Israeli city of Haifa.
1954 – Elvis Costello. British musician, singer and songwriter Declan Patrick MacManus, whose stage name is Elvis Costello, was born in London and has written more than 300 songs and released 40 albums, Grammy Award-winning.
1958 – Tim Burton. American film director and producer Timothy “Tim” Burton was born in Burbank, California, USA. He has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award and has filmed more than 30 films, including the successful “Charlie and the Factory”.
Tim Burton.
1970 – Claudia Schiffer. Model Claudia Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, Germany and became one of the most popular models in the world. She is known as one of the “supermodels” of the 1990s, along with British Naomi Campbell and American Cindy Crawford.
Claudia Schiffer (Photo: Instagram/claudiaschiffer)
1984 – Truman Capote. Truman Streckfus Persons, American writer and journalist, author of the novels “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (made into a film in 1961) and “Blood” died in Los Angeles (California, USA) at the age of 59 .
2012 – Neil Armstrong. 82-year-old American space engineer and astronaut Neil Armstrong, NASA Apollo lunar soil commander.
Neil Armstrong. (AP/Archives)
Other anniversaries
- 1580.- Spanish troops under the Duke of Alba defeated the Portuguese at the Battle of Alcantara near Lisbon. The Kingdom of Portugal became the kingdom of Philip II.
- 1859.- Antonio Rios Rosas and Cardinal Antonelli confirmed in the Vatican the confiscation and sale of church assets that took place in May 1855.
- 1873- Cuban patriot and poet Juan Clemente Zenea was shot dead in Havana.
- 1897- Uruguayan President Juan Idiat Borda was assassinated in front of Montevideo Cathedral.
- 1913- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson unveiled an economic boycott of Mexico.
- 1919.- Commercial aviation was born: a Havilland civilian aircraft carried two passengers from London to Paris in two and a half hours.
- 1920.- French pilot Adrienne Bolland flew across the English Channel, becoming the second woman to do so.
- 1936- Russian revolutionaries Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and 14 others were executed for their attempts to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders.
- 1944- Paris is liberated: General de Gaulle delivers his famous “Paris is liberated!” and declares the end of the Nazi occupation.
- 1947- Ecuador coup: President Velasco Ibarra resigns and Colonel Manchenho takes office.
- 1967- Argentina enacted laws stripping communists of their nationality and public office.
- 1983- Guatemalan President Efraín Rios Montt was overthrown in a coup a year after he seized power by force.
- 1988- A severe fire destroyed much of central Lisbon (between Baixa Pombalina and Chiado).
- 1991- Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994- Typhoon Fred caused 1,261 deaths and US$1 billion in damage in Zhejiang Province, China.
- 1999.- Bosnian Serb general Momir Talic was arrested in Vienna and transferred to The Hague on charges of organizing ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
- 2000.- Former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic disappeared in Belgrade.
- 2001- Prince Haakon of Norway marries Mette-Marit Jessem at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Oslo.
- 2003- Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed 23 people.
- 2005- Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the United States, killing 1,833 people and causing damage of more than 65 billion euros.
- 2006- Microsoft Corporation of the United States has launched “Windows” and “Office” programs in Quechua in Bolivia.
- 2009.- The leader of the Pakistani Taliban has confirmed that the country’s leader Batullah Mehsud has died after being in a coma for weeks due to a US attack.
- 2014.- Guatemala has declared a state of public disaster for nearly the entire country due to a prolonged drought.
- 2015.- Venezuela’s Congress approves state of emergency on border with Colombia.
- 2021.- The Astrophysical Journal published an article stating that British astronomers have discovered a new type of exoplanet “Hycean” that is different from our planet but has a “promising possibility” of harboring life.
born
- 1896- Luis Blanco Soler, Spanish architect.
- 1905- Celia Gámez, “vedette” and Spanish-Argentinian singer.
- 1912- Eric Honecker, German politician.
- 1917- Mel Ferrell, American actor and film producer.
- 1918- Leonard Bernstein, American musician.
- 1923- Alvaro Mutis, Colombian writer.
- 1934- Ali Rafsanjani, former President of Iran.
- 1954- Declan Patrick McManus, “Elvis Costello”, British singer.
death toll
- 1776.- David Hume, British philosopher.
- 1863- Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist.
- 1981- Bill Coleman, American classical jazz musician.
- 2001- Ken Tyrrell, British, founder of Formula One team.
- 2009.- Edward Kennedy, United States Senator.
- 2017.- Ulises Juarez Polanco, Nicaraguan writer.
- 2020.- Jorge Sanguinez, Peruvian World War II hero.
Source: Self and institution.
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