In the May 10 ephemeris These facts that happened a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1895. The second national census
The according to national census. The first had been in 1869, under the presidency of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. The exhibition, carried out during the government of José Evaristo Uriburu, a brand that in Argentina at the end of the 19th century There were 4,044,911 inhabitants and 536,034 houses.
1941. Hess’s flight to Scotland
One of the most enigmatic facts of World war II occurs: Rudolf HessAdolf Hitler’s number two arrives in Scotland on a lonely flight. They arrest him immediately and will spend the rest of his imprisoned life. What did HESS travel to Scotland? Upon arrival he claimed to see a nobleman, the Duke of Hamilton, and was speculated that there was an alleged peace negotiation. Germany accuses him of having a mental disorder. As HESS’s arrest is prior to the meeting of the High Command that decides the extermination of the Jews of Europe, he avoids the gallows in the Nuremberg trial and receives a sentence to life imprisonment. HESS will commit suicide in 1987, at 93 years.
1960. Bonus is born
In Dublin Paul David Hewson was born, better known as Bono. U2, one of the main rock groups in history. LBand jumped to fame in the 80s and has edited albums such as The Joshua Tree y Attention baby. In addition, Bono has stood out for his militancy of complaint of poverty in the countries of Africa, as well as his orders for debt forgiveness to less developed nations. With U2 he visited Argentina four times.
1975. The murder of Roque Dalton
The Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton He is killed by his own companions of the Guerrillas of the Revolutionary Army of the People. In four more days I would have turned 40. In the midst of a strong internal bid, a group separates from the ERP and this leads to the decision to kill several militants, including the poet, which they accuse of belonging to the CIA. He would have been executed at the foot of the San Salvador volcano with José Armando Ortega. The bodies never appeared and only in 1998 a death certificate was extended. Dalton’s literary career had begun in 1957 with the publication of Mine next to the birds. Other titles: The offender’s turn, The testimonies, Tavern and other places y Poor poet that was me …
1994. Mandela assumes in South Africa
Nelson Mandela assumes as president of South Africa. The most famous political prisoner of the twentieth century becomes the first black presidentafter the historical elections of April 1994, in which the black majority could express themselves at the polls. The Apartheid era ends, in a country that came to give constitutional rank to racism. Mandela had been imprisoned between 1963 and 1990, and His presidency extended until 1999.
1995. An anthological goal to get champion
Final of the Recopa in the Park of the Princes, in Paris. The match that defines the second most important competition of European football after the Champions League Face the current champion, the English arsenal, and the Zaragoza of Spain. The comparison ends 1 to 1 and go to the supplementary. In the last play of the game, when everything seems to indicate that it will be defined by penalties, Nayim, Zaragoza player, finishes from almost 50 meters. The ball falls behind goalkeeper David Seaman. The imposing goal gives the victory to the Spanish team.
2014. Carmen Argibay dies
At 74, one of the most recognized jurists in Argentina dies: Carmen Argibay. Received as a lawyer, He was prey to the dictatorship. In democracy he arrived in Judge. He handled, among other causes, the complaint for violation of minor against Héctor Veira and sent it to jail. Integrated the International Women’s Court on war crimes for the prosecution of sexual slavery, in the process for sexual crimes of the Japanese army during the Second War. The UN designated the member of the International Criminal Court that prosecuted human rights violations in former Yugoslavia. President Néstor Kirchner proposed it to integrate the Supreme Court. It was defined as “militant atheist” and in favor of abortionwhich won the anger of conservative sectors. A pulmonary emphysema ended his life.
2014. Andrés Carrasco dies
Victim of a heart attack, the biologist dies Andrés Carrasco. He was 67 years old and was a relentless critic of the use of agrotoxic. He investigated the effects of glyphosate and denounced Monsanto.
2017. Mass repudiation to 2 by 1 in Plaza de Mayo
A crowd congregates in Plaza de Mayo for repudiate the 2 by 1 to convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the last military dictatorship. The ruling of the Supreme Court contemplates the benefit for Luis Muiñaimprisoned for repression at the Posadas hospital. The law of 2 by 1, which was contemplated every day without condemnation as double, was in force between 1994 and 2001, and was implemented in the midst of a prison superpoblation crisis, not for human rights rapists. In addition, from 1987 to 2003, the repressors were able to accept the laws of the end point and due obedience, and not at 2 by 1 as more benign law, since those norms avoided them the jail. The court ruling generates a massive rejection, since it can allow the release of much of the convicted ones. Congress takes out a law that exempts from any benefit to state terrorism. The highest court revoked its ruling in December 2018.
In addition, it is the World Lupus Dayto raise awareness about this disease.
