In the ephemeris of August 5th These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1939. The Thirteen Roses are shot in Madrid
Thirteen young women between the ages of 29 and 18 are shot in Madrid following being sentenced by a War Council. The Franco regime, which has just won the Spanish Civil War, the sentence for the attack once morest a soldier. Dozens of people are tried and convicted, but attention is drawn to the calls Thirteen Roses, with militancy in the Unified Socialist Youth and the Communist Party. The age of majority was then established in Spain at 23 years, with which nine of the thirteen shot were minors.
[1945JuanSasturainisborn
In the Buenos Aires town of Adolfo Gonzales Chaves was born Juan Sasturai. He studied Literature at the UBA and worked as a journalist. He went through means like Clarion, Humor y PageI1. In the diary The voice serialized his novel losers handbook. Other novels are: sand in shoes, the fight continues, I would pay not to see you, Doubtful Noriega y The last Hammett. He explored his footballing streak in The sweaty homeland, a book that covers the course of Argentina in the World Cups. He has written several volumes of short stories and novels for young adults. He was a cartoon writer Perramusone of the masterpieces of Alberto Breccia. directed the magazine Fierrohosted the TV show see to read and is currently director of the National Library.
1966. Goes on sale Revolverof the Beatles
The Beatles jump into the void with the launch of Revolver, their seventh studio album. The album incorporates the recording studio as one more instrument, with songs full of sound effects, impossible to reproduce live with the technology of the time, and a few weeks before the band leaves the tours.
1967. Pink Floyd’s recording debut
Recording career begins Pink Floyd. The band releases its first album: The Piper at the Gates of Dawnwhich translates as The piper at the gates of dawn. The group is made up of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason. The album is one of the first psychedelic rock records. It is the only LP of the group in which he did not participate David Gilmourwho joined in early 1968. Barrett would leave the group shortly following, amid drug problems and tensions with his peers.
1984. Muere Richard Burton
In Céligny, Switzerland, he dies Richard Burton. She was 58 years old and succumbed to a brain hemorrhage. Born in Wales in 1925, he was one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. He stood out for his roles in movies like the sacred cloak, Cleopatra, The spy that emerged from the cold, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?, where eagles dare y Equus. Seven times nominated for an Oscar, he never raised the golden statuette. In the 1960s he married Elizabeth Taylor. They were the most famous couple in the world. They separated and remarried in 1974. That second marriage barely lasted two years.
2000. Muere Alec Guinness
British actor dies at 86 Alec Guinness. His career took off following World War II, with movies like gold in bars y the quintet of death. By The Bridge on the River Kwai He won the Oscar for best actor. He was Obi-Wan Kenobi in star warsin exchange for a percentage of the profits, which earns his heirs more money per year than all his other films combined.
2012. Chavela Vargas dies
go dead Chavela Vargas In Cuernavaca. She had been born in 1919 in San Joaquín, Costa Rica, as María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano. Symbol of ranchera music, her career took her forward in Mexico. Her career was marred by alcoholism. He had a greening in his last years, with various awards. The presence of her songs in Pedro Almodóvar films helped that popularity in old age.
2014. Estela de Carlotto is reunited with her grandson
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announce the restitution of the identity of the grandson of Estela de Carlotto, the president of the entity. A 36-year search ends with the appearance of Ignacio Montoya Carlotto. He is the 114th grandson to recover his identity. Son of Walmir Oscar Montoya and Laura Carlotto, his mother gave birth to him in a military hospital on June 26, 1978. She had been kidnapped in November 1977 and passed through the clandestine detention center known as “La Cacha” . Her remains were identified in 1985, and Montoya’s in 2009. The country is shocked by the appearance of Carlotto’s grandson, who has lived his entire life in Olavarría and is a musician.
2019. Toni Morrison dies
the american writer Toni Morrison dies at 88 years old. She had been born in Ohio as Chloe Ardelia Wofford. She graduated with a BA, was a college professor, and became the first black fiction editor at Random House. Her first novel was Blue eyesfrom 1970. They followed Sula, Solomon’s song, the island of knights and the acclaimed Belovedwhich earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Jazzof 1992, preceded the delivery, a year later, of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other later works: Paradise, Amor, A blessing, Return y children’s night.
Furthermore, it is the International Beer Day.
