In the anniversaries of June 14 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1928. The birth of Che Guevara
Ernesto Guevara was born in Rosario, although it is stated that his birth could have been a month earlier and he recorded it in June to disguise the fact that his mother Celia was already pregnant at the time of their marriage. He grew up in Alta Gracia, Córdoba, whose climate was conducive to alleviating his asthma. He played rugby and studied medicine. He toured Latin America with his friend Alberto Granado. In 1953 he undertook a second trip with Carlos “Calica” Ferrer, which led him to political action. He witnessed the coup in Guatemala and met Fidel Castro. He accompanied the expedition of Granma and he was a key figure in the victory against Fulgencio Batista. After the victory of the Revolution, He was Minister of Industry and president of the National Bank of Cuba. Contrary to a dependence on the USSR, he traveled to the Congo, where he failed in the campaign alongside Laurent Kabila. He later entered the jungle of Bolivia, where he was captured and executed by that country’s army in October 1967. His remains were buried in Valle Grande, found in 1997 and taken to Cuba..
1940. The entry of the Nazis into Paris
Hitler’s troops enter Paris. France capitulates and four years of German occupation begin. It is Germany’s moment of greatest success in the Second War, with the fall of France and the English retreat at Dunkirk. Nazism establishes a puppet government in Vichy, which will promote the deportations of Jews. The second front opened by the Allies with D-Day will allow the liberation of France in August 1944.
1946. Donald Trump is born
Donald Trump is born in New York. The billionaire is one of the most powerful men in real estate and became popular as a media person and with the reality show The newbie. From business and showbiz he moved into politics. After years of threatening a candidacy, he ran for president in 2016. He destroyed his rivals in the Republican race and defeated Hillary Clinton. He arrived at the White House with a right-wing populist speech. His campaign was based on building a border wall with Mexico. Trump’s years in power led to the resurgence of white supremacy, as seen in the events of Charlottesville, which the president did not firmly repudiate; plus the racially motivated violence that generated the crime of George Floyd. He embarked on a trade war with China, applied strong protectionism, abandoned the nuclear deal with Iran and froze relations with Cuba, the latter two legacies of Barack Obama. He also made the United States leave the Paris Agreement on climate change. Because of the Russian plot he went to impeachment. The Senate acquitted him and emerged stronger for his re-election, but the coronavirus arrived. The terrible handling of the pandemic (he minimized its impact with thousands of deaths and on top of that he was infected) played in favor of Joe Biden, who defeated him in November 2020. Trump did not admit the Democratic victory and stoked the storming of the Capitol on January 6 of 2021, when Biden was certified as president-elect. Due to this unprecedented event, which occurred two weeks before leaving the presidency, he faced a second impeachment, of which he was also acquitted, days after leaving the government. He went down in history for having faced two political trials in a single term.. The most embarrassing presidency in American history ended on January 20, 2021, and Trump did not even attend the handover ceremony. Today he is prohibited from accessing social networks due to the virulence of his speech. He ended up launching his own social network. In addition, he faces several cases, one of them for rape and was convicted in May 2023. Anointed as a Republican presidential candidate for the third consecutive time, he received a conviction for bribing a porn actress.
1952. The birth of Lalo Mir
Lalo Mir is born in San Pedro. One of the distinctive voices of Argentine radio, he achieved popularity with Radio Bangkoka Rock&Pop cycle that aired between 1987 and 1989. His career continues to this daywith cycles on various stations, and has also ventured into television.
1956. Juan Carlos Baglietto is born
Juan Carlos Baglietto was born in Rosario. exponent of the rosarina trovahe joined several groups before launching his solo career in 1981. He recorded the album Time difficult, in 1982, which was a success and became one of the emblematic artists of the democratic spring. Since then he has remained active, with an extensive discography.
1982. The Argentine surrender in the Malvinas
The military governor of the Falkland Islands, Mario Benjamín Menéndez, surrenders to English general Jeremy Moore. Thus ends the South Atlantic conflict, the first and only war that Argentina faced in the 20th century. 74 days earlier, on April 2, Argentine troops had landed in the archipelago occupied by Great Britain since 1833. Menéndez capitulated before the siege of Puerto Argentino and after the fighting on Mount Longdon and Mount Tumbledown. The war ends with 649 dead on the Argentine side. The British suffer 255 casualties. The defeat precipitates the fall of the dictator Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri. The de facto government, in full decomposition, begins its departure with a view to free elections.
1985. The Austral Plan
President Raúl Alfonsín and his Minister of Economy, Juan Vital Sourrouille, announce the launch of the Austral Plan. This is an aggressive shock program to stabilize the economy and stop the advance of inflation. There is a change in monetary sign: the new currency, which replaces the Argentine peso, is the austral. Prices, salaries and rates are frozen. The program is agreed upon with the IMF and has unorthodox aspects. The first months were successful, with a noticeable drop in inflation, which allowed the UCR to win the legislative elections in November 1985.
1986. Jorge Luis Borges dies
Jorge Luis Borges dies in Geneva, the city of his youth, at the age of 86. He had left Argentina at the end of the previous year to settle in the Swiss city where he lived and studied during the years of the First War. The greatest Argentine writer of the 20th century is buried in the city of French-speaking Switzerland. Two months earlier he had married his secretary, Maria Kodama, whom he named her universal heir in a new will. Borges’s central work is composed of the stories of Fictions and The Alephthe trials of Other inquisitions and a volume that brings together poems and short stories: The maker. He also published books of poems such as Fervor of Buenos Aires, The gold of the tigers, The amount and The conspirators. She co-authored books with Adolfo Bioy Casares such as Six problems for Don Isidro Parodi and Chronicles of Bustos Domecq. He was furiously anti-Peronist. He applauded the coups of 1955 and 1976, but repudiated state terrorism. In addition, he taught at the UBA. Eternal candidate for the Nobel Prize, He obtained the Cervantes in 1979.
1988. Sara Gallardo dies
Sara Gallardo dies at age 56. The writer came from a prosapia family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Bartolomé Mitre, the great-granddaughter of Miguel Cané and the granddaughter of Ángel Gallardo. In 1958 her first novel appeared, Januarywhich was followed Blue pantsin 1963. Later his most celebrated novels would come: The greyhounds, the greyhounds, in 1968; and Eisejuazin 1971. He also published the volumes of stories The country of smoke and The rose in the windin addition to venturing into children’s literature. His columns in the magazine Confirmed they met in Macaneos; The rest of his journalistic work was published in The trades.
1999. Osvaldo Dragún dies
The playwright Osvaldo Dragún dies. He was 70 years old and He was one of the promoters of Teatro Abiertothe great initiative of cultural resistance against the dictatorship, in 1981. His first work was The plague comes from Melosin 1956. Then they would come Tupac Amaru, Those at table 10, My obelisk and I (written for Teatro Abierto) and Return to Havanaamong other titles, in addition to the soap opera The hundred days of Ana. Independent theater figure, rescued the Teatro del Pueblo.
2005. Impunity laws declared unconstitutional
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation declares the unconstitutionality of the Punto Final and Due Obedience laws. Seven of the nine judges vote in that sense, one against and the remaining abstains. In this way, the repressors of the last military dictatorship can no longer rely on those norms sanctioned during the government of Raúl Alfonsín, and that Congress annulled in 2003. The Court’s ruling recognizes the validity of the parliamentary annulment. Judge Carlos Fayt, who had voted in favor of the validity of both laws in 1987, ratifies his vote at that time. Enrique Petracchi changes his vote from eighteen years earlier and considers them unconstitutional. Augusto Belluscio is the one who abstains, after having voted for the validation.
Furthermore, it is the World Blood Donor Dayas stipulated by the World Health Organization.
