In the anniversaries of April 30 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
[1945ThedeathofHitler
With Berlin destroyed and Soviet troops about to take the city, Adolf Hitler commits suicide in the Chancellery bunker. German dictator marries Eva Braun before shooting himself. She also commits suicide. The Nazi leader’s collaborators burn the bodies and bury them. The Soviets later took away the remains.
1975. The fall of Saigon
North Vietnamese troops take Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Almost twenty years of conflict have ended since independence from France, marked by the intervention of the United States starting in 1964. Vietcong victory comes after US troops leave. The country is reunified in the form of a socialist state.
1977. The first round of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
A group of fourteen women, all of them mothers of those disappeared by the dictatorship, meet in Plaza de Mayo and begin a decades-long struggle. It is Saturday and they will march every Thursday to demand their loved ones from the military regime. His fight for human rights has continued since then. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo begin to gain visibility with the arrival of the international press for the 1978 World Cup.. The World Cup begins on a Thursday, the day of the now usual round in Plaza de Mayo, and Dutch television collects testimonies from women who fight in absolute solitude.
1983. Goodbye to Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters, one of the biggest names in blues history, dies at 70. She began her career in Mississippi and established herself in the Chicago music scene. He is considered one of the most influential musicians in the history of popular music.
1989. Sergio Leone dies
Italian filmmaker dies Sergio Leone, at 60 years old. He was the main director of a film subgenre: the spaghetti-western. The so-called Dollar Trilogy, composed of a handful of dollars, For a handful more dollars and the good, the bad and the uglycatapulted Clint Eastwood to fame and turned Ennio Morricone (with whom they studied together) into an essential composer of the seventh art. Leone redefined the western with once upon a time in the westa film full of nods to the genre. After Giù la testa He did not film again for thirteen years. She reappeared in 1984 with her enormous Once upon a Time in Americastarring Robert De Niro. At the time of his death he was planning a film about the siege of Leningrad.
1993. The attack on Monica Seles
Tennis player Monica Seles, world number 1, is attacked in the middle of a match in Hamburg, while facing the Bulgarian Magdalena Maleeva. The Yugoslavian receives a knife from Günter Parche, a man obsessed with Steffi Graf, Seles’ great rival at that time. The 2 centimeter deep wound keeps Seles away from the courts for two years. The attack marked the end of his reign: Graf recovered number 1 and Seles did not regain his level prior to the attack. Parche was detained for five months: he was sentenced to two years in suspended prison for minor assault (he avoided a complaint for attempted murder) and to receive psychological treatment; Today he resides in a nursing home and has never spoken publicly about what happened..
2011. Ernesto Sabato dies
He died at the age of 99 Ernesto Sabato. The writer dies less than two months before his 100th birthday. Doctor in Physics, he came to literature with the essay One and the Universeappeared in 1945. His first novel, The tunnelwas published in 1948. After essays such as Men and gears and Heterodoxyhe worked on his most famous book, the novel About heroes and graveswhich was released in 1961. From 1974 it is his third and last novel, Abaddon the Exterminator. His last books were essayistic: before the end, The resistance and Spain in the diaries of my old age. He won the Cervantes Prize in 1984the same year that chaired the National Commission on the Disappearance of Personswho delivered the report Never more to President Raúl Alfonsín.
2013. Máxima Zorreguieta, queen consort
In the Netherlands there is a change in the monarchy. William Alexander, son of Queen Beatrix, succeeds his mother to the throne. The monarch had announced her decision to abdicate after 33 years of reign. This determines that Argentina Maxima Zorreguietawife of William Alexander and daughter of an official of the military dictatorship, becomes queen consort.
2022. Juan Vattuone passes away
The singer-songwriter and composer Juan Vattuone dies at 73 years old. He was recognized for his tango compositions. Sponsored by Rubén Juárez, in 2005 he presented his first album, mango tangos. In 2011 it appeared listen to me one thing. He was declared Outstanding Personality of Culture of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in 2015.a year before the release of their third album, The measure of the impossible.
Furthermore, it is the International Jazz Day.
