Today’s ephemeris: What happened on May 2 | Facts that occurred in Argentina and the world

In the Ephemeris of May 2 These facts that happened a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:

1519. Leonardo dies

Leonardo da Vinci It dies in Amboise, France, at 67. There he is buried. Born on the outskirts of Florence in 1452, he was one of the fundamental men of the Renaissance in Italy. He stood out as a painter. Among his main works are The last Supper y The Mona Lisathe most famous portrait in art history. He was also a sculptor, architect and studied the human anatomy, something he embodied in his Man of vitruvio. As an inventor, he designed a machine to polish mirrors and was a pioneer of aviation, 500 years before the first flight.

1808. Madrid rises against Napoleon

Madrid people go outside in a Popular uprising against Napoleonic troops. The French repress the revolt, which remains as a milestone in the fight against Napoleon, who had occupied the Iberian Peninsula. In the early hours of May 3, the French troops shoot for about 80 prisoners. In total there are 400 dead. Two famous paintings by Francisco de Goya realize those events. May 2 in Madrid (also known as The burden of mamelucos) shows the heat of the fight; May 3 in Madrid It is a shocking reconstruction of the executions.

1936. Nace Norma Aleandro

Nace Norma Aleandro. Daughter of actors Pedro Aleandro and María Luisa Robledo, and sister of also actress María Vaner, began her career as a young man and stood out in theater, cinema and television. He integrated the People de Theater group, directed by David Stivel, and It was seen in the television cycle Thing judged. He must have exiled for the threats of Triple A. returned from Spain in 1981 to star Miss TacnaMario Vargas Llosa’s first piece. Consecration arrived in 1985 with The official history: Aleandro was awarded at the Cannes Festival and Luis Puenzo’s film took the Oscar for the best foreign film. In 1987 she was nominated for an Oscar as secondary actress by Gaby: A True Story. Later, he was seen in films like One hundred times I should not, Autumn sun y The son of the bride.

1957. McCarthy’s death

Dies Joseph McCarthySenator for the Republican Party since 1947. It was the figure for the hunt for witch hunt after the second War, when the anti -communist fever began and the most visible face of the sadly famous Committee of Anti -St. Activities Activities, through which hundreds of people were persecuted for ideological reasons and urged the low threat of losing the passport. Hearings in fact abolished the right to invoke the fifth amendmentthat protects the guarantees of due process and prevents a person from self -criminal. Discredited by his methods (he took a false step in 1954 with the televised audiences in which he wanted to verify the communist infiltration in the army), the senator inspired a term to define the ideological persecution: macartism.

1982. The sinking of Belgrano

The British submarine Conqueror the torpedo Al ARA cruise General Belgrano outside the exclusion zone decreed by the government of Margaret Thatcher and sinks it. The Argentine ship sailed away from the islands, which increases criticism of Thatcher. In the waters of the South Atlantic 323 of the 1093 crew. It is the second day of the Falklands War. The liquid scoring the Peace Initiative of the Peruvian Government and leads to the replication of the Navy. He Belgrano He had been bought in 1951 by the government of Juan Domingo Perón to the United States. Until then it was called USS Phoenix and was part of the fleet attacked by Japan in Pearl Harbor.

1997. Fallece Paulo Freire

At 75, one of the most important intellectuals in Brazil and Latin America dies: Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the oppressedappeared in 1970, gave it worldwide fame. He also published Education as a practice of freedom, Education and change, Popular culture, popular education, Talking to educators, The school is called life y The meek cryamong other works. Close to the Workers Partyhis theories about educational practice would have great influence in the last decades of the last century.

1997. Labor returns to power with Tony Blair

Tony Blair It becomes prime minister of the United Kingdom, a day after its overwhelming electoral victory, which ends 18 years of conservative government. The Labor leader expires the Premier John Major and is, at 43, the youngest prime minister in British history, in what represents the worst defeat of the conservatives and a generational replacement. Blair reaches 10 downing street mounted in his idea of “The third way”which seeks to adapt the social democratic ideas of the Labor Party to the new prevailing order of globalization. He will govern until 2007 and will be marked by his role in the invasion of Iraq, against any proof of the existence of weapons of mass destruction.

2011. The fall of Bin Laden

Osama bin Ladenthe most wanted man in the world, dies in a military operation in Pakistan. Al Qaeda leader was 54 years old. The United States was in the sights for its responsibility in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Intelligence actions established that the Saudi terrorist was in a residence in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. An elite command group enters and kills it with three other people. The body is taken to an aircraft carrier and thrown into the sea.

2017. Goodbye to Abelardo Castillo

It dies Abelardo Castilloone of the greatest Argentine writers. He was 82 years old. He lived as a child in San Pedro and fond of chess. He was the author of theatrical works as The other Judas e ISRABLE; The novels The one who is thirst, Chronicle of an initiate y The Gospel according to Van Hutten; In addition to several volumes of stories (The other doors, Cruel stories, The panthers and the temple); Personal Tales Anthology Of the world we met; the two volumes of their newspapers; and the essay Be a writer. Created literary magazines The paper cricket, The gold beetle y The Ornitorrinco.

2021. Alcira Argumedo dies

Alcira Argumedo diesfive days before turning 81 years. He was born in Rosario and was one of the most important sociologists in Argentina. Public Monopolies and Third World (next to Pablo Franco), The Third World: History, problems and perspectives, The labyrinths of the crisis, A horizon without certainties: Latin America before the scientific-technical revolution y Silences and voices in Latin America: notes on national and popular thinking. He was Secretary of Culture of the Province of Buenos Aires between 1973 and 1974. Accompanied Pino Solanas in the South Project and occupied a bank of Deputy between 2009 and 2017.

In addition, it is the World Age Dayand the World Tuna Day.