In the anniversaries of June 24 These events stand out that on a day like today occurred in Argentina and the world:
1911. Juan Manuel Fangio is born
Juan Manuel Fangio Born in Balcarce. He won two Road Touring titles (1940 and 1941) with Chevrolet. He had an accident in 1948 in Peru, while racing in the South American Grand Prix that linked Buenos Aires with Caracas, and his co-pilot Daniel Urrutia lost his life there. With the support of the Peronist government he arrived in Europe to compete in the newborn Formula 1. He won his first title in 1951, with Alfa Romeo. In 1954 he won two championships: he ran two races with Maserati and the rest of the season with Mercedes Benz. He repeated with the German brand in 1955. The following year he was crowned with Ferrari and in 1957 he obtained his fifth title, aboard Maserati. He retired in 1958, after the kidnapping in Cuba by followers of Fidel Castro while fighting the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. In total, he ran 51 races in the top category and won 24. Fangio assumed the presidency of the Argentine subsidiary of Mercedes Benz. As such, he accompanied dictator Jorge Rafael Videla on a trip to Venezuela. At the same time, state terrorism kidnapped the seven members of the automaker’s internal commission, only one of whom survived. He died in 1995 and subsequent DNA tests certified his paternity in three cases.
1911. The birth of Ernesto Sábato
Ernesto Sabato was born in the Buenos Aires town of Rojas. 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 Heterodoxyworked in shis most famous book, the novel About heroes and graveswhich was released in 1961. He wrote Romance of the death of Juan Lavalle, which Eduardo Falú set to music. 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 obtained the Cervantes Prize in 1984, the same year in which he chaired the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, which delivered the report Never more to President Raúl Alfonsín. He died on April 30, 2011, less than two months before his 100th birthday.
1935. Carlos Gardel dies
Carlos Gardel dies in a plane accident in Medellín. The ship carrying him collides with another on the runway as it takes off. 17 people die in total. The lyricist Alfredo Le Pera and several of his companions perished with Gardel. The only guitarist who survives is José María Aguilar, who remains blind. Gardel was born in Toulouse, on December 11, 1890. A natural son, he arrived with his mother Berta to Argentina in 1893.. The use of a Uruguayan passport with a date of birth in Tacuarembó, in 1887, fueled the belief that he had been born there. Actually, He processed this document to enter France on his first European tour, in 1923, and thus mislead the French authorities. to avoid problems as a deserter to military service, in a country sensitized by the First War. After that trip he started using Argentine documentation. His birthplace, birth certificate, and his own will, from early 1935, document his origins. The recording of “Mi noche triste”, in 1917, marks the beginning of the tango song. He shared a duet with José Razzano and then continued his solo career, marked in his later years by his leap into sound films and by his association with Le Pera, with whom he composed classics such as “My Buenos Aires Queria”, “Volver” and “Rubias”. from New York”.
1941. Julia Kristeva is born
Julia Kristeva is born in Bulgaria. A philosopher, psychoanalyst and feminist, she settled in Paris in 1965. A professor of semiology, she is a critic of structuralism, with influences, above all, of Lacan. Her works include: The text of the novel, Powers of perversion, Strangers to ourselves, The new diseases of the soul and The future of a revolt.
1958. The birth of Luis Salinas
Guitarist Luis Salinas was born in Monte Grande. One of the most admired musicians in Argentina, he began playing as a child. He performed with artists such as Chico Novarro, Lito Vitale, Hermeto Pascoal, BB King, Jaime Torres and Paco de Lucía. He has an extensive career as a soloist.
1978. Juan Román Riquelme is born
One of Boca’s great idols is born: Juan roman riquelme. He arrived as a youth from Argentinos Jr. and shone since his debut in the first division in 1996. The following year he was under-20 youth world champion in Malaysia. He was the brain of the all-time champion team led by Carlos Bianchi.. He went to Barcelona and then to Villarreal. He returned to Boca to win the 2007 Libertadores. He played in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the Beijing Olympic Games., in which he won the gold medal. He retired in Argentinos Jrs. Since the end of 2019 he was vice president of Boca and in 2023 he became president of the xeneize club.
1987. The birth of Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi is born in Rosario. He played in the Newell’s youth team before going with his family to Spain, recruited by the Barcelona youth team. He spent his entire career at the Catalan club, where he displayed a talent comparable to that of Diego Maradona. There he won ten leagues, four Champions Leagues, three club World Cups, seven King’s Cups and seven Spanish Super Cups. He is the top scorer in the history of Barcelona and received the Ballon d’Or six times. He was a U-20 youth world champion with the Argentine national team in Holland in 2005 and three years later he added Olympic gold. Runner-up in Brazil 2014, he was chosen as the best player of that tournament. In 2021 he went to Paris Saint-Germain. That year he won the Copa América with the National Team and finally He won the World Cup at the World Cup in Qatar.
1995. Mandela and the Rugby World Cup in South Africa
South Africa beats New Zealand 15-12 in overtime in the Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg. A drop by Joel Stransky gives the Springboks victory in the third World Cup, and the first in which the South Africans participate. The supremacist policy of apartheid had prohibited their participation in the first two World Cups. Precisely, the World Cup is held in a democratic South Africa, governed by Nelson Mandela, that takes advantage of the sporting event to generate a feeling of cohesion between whites and blacks.
2000. Rodrigo dies
The singer loses his life in a car accident on the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway Rodrigo Bueno. He was 27 years old and in the last year of his life he had become a mass phenomenon, which popularized the Córdoba quartet throughout the country. He played a series of sold-out shows at Luna Park in the weeks before his death. One of his companions, Fernando Olmedo, son of the capocomic Alberto Olmedo, also died in the accident..
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