In the ephemeris of september 12 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1922. Antonio Cafiero is born
Nace Antonio Cafiero, one of the main leaders in the history of Peronism. He was Minister of Foreign Trade in Perón’s second presidency. In the 1970s, he held the Ministry of Economy after Rodrigazo and was ambassador to the Vatican at the time of the 1976 coup. In 1985 he challenged the orthodoxy of Herminio Iglesias. He won that certification and led the Peronist renewal. He defeated radicalism in 1987 and became governor of the province of Buenos Aires. A year later, Carlos Menem ended his presidential dream by beating him in the first internship in the history of Justicialism.. Later he was a senator. He died in 2014, at the age of 92.
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The Italian cartoonist is born Milo Manara, referent of the erotic comic. His most famous work is The Clickfrom 1983. They also highlight The Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman and the works in collaboration with Hugo Pratt (indian summer, The Gaucho) y Federico Fellini (Trip to Tulum, The voyage of G. Mastorna, called Fernet).
1975. Pink Floyd lanza Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd releases the album Wish You Were Here. The English band achieves one of the rock peaks of the 70s, two years after the impact of The dark side of the moon. The LP has an underlying theme: the madness of Syd Barrettfounding member of Pink Floyd who had to leave the group due to his addictions.
1977. The crime of Steve Biko
Steve Biko, one of the leaders of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, is assassinated at the age of 30. He had led the Soweto students’ struggle in June 1976. On August 18, 1977, he was arrested by the police and charged under the anti-terrorist law of the racist regime. He was tortured in Police Room 619 in Port Elizabeth. The injuries cause his death and the police say he went on a hunger strike. The news shakes the world and brings to the fore the repudiation of white supremacy. Biko’s funeral brings together 20 thousand people and years later generates a song by Peter Gabriel. The story of his struggle was narrated in the film Cry Freedomcon Denzel Washington como Biko.
1992. The fall of Abimael Guzmán
Abimael Guzman, leader of luminous pathis arrested in Lima. This is the biggest blow against the Maoist guerrilla, which is beheaded. The arrest of Guzmán, 57, oxygenates Alberto Fujimori after the self-coup on April 5 of that year. Guzmán is shown to the press in a cage, wearing a striped suitand served a life sentence until his death, on September 11, 2021.
2003. Johnny Cash dies
Johnny Cash dies at 71. Symbol of country music, in half a century of career he sold ninety million records. For decades he was dependent on the use of amphetamines and in his last years he suffered from a neurodegenerative disease. The movie Walk the Line recounts his life. There he is personified by Joaquín Phoenix, while Reese Witherspoon, in a performance that earned him an Oscar, played June Carter, his wife who died in May 2003.
2008. Muere David Foster Wallace
american writer David Foster Wallace hangs himself at his home in Claremont, Los Angeles. He was 46 years old and suffered from depression. Fame had come to him in 1996 with the infinite joke, a novel of more than a thousand pages, acclaimed by critics. From 1987 is his first novel, The system broom. His posthumous novel the pale kingwas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. During his lifetime he published storybooks such as The girl with the weird hair y extinction. He also wrote several books of essays and chronicles, among which stand out Something supposedly fun that I will never do again, Let’s talk about lobsters y Tennis as a religious experience.
2010. Muere Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrolone of the key names of the Nouvelle Vague, dies in Paris at the age of 80. He was part of the mythical newsroom of Cinema Notebooks in the 1950s and published a monograph on Hitchcock together with Éric Rohmer. His extensive filmography of more than fifty titles started in 1958 with the beautiful sergio and culminated in 2009 with Bellamy. Among his films stand out The butcher and its adaptation of Madame Bovary.
Furthermore, it is the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation.