Good day
So be it!
The Rooster Already Crowed
It’s already FRIDAY, June 28th
Greetings from the South of Monterrey
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World Tree Day
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Saints: Irenaeus
1577 Birth of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most important artists of the 17th century.
1712 The writer and philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau is born in Geneva, Switzerland. His theories have great influence on the French Revolution. He is the author of “Discourse on Sciences and Arts” and “The Social Contract.”
1813 José María Morelos publishes the first call for the Congress to be held in Chilpancingo.
1846 Belgian musician and musical instrument maker Antoine-Joseph ‘Adolphe’ Sax patented the saxophone.
1889 Federico Gómez, a prominent journalist who was director of the newspaper “El Porvenir”, was born in Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
1906 American theoretical physicist of German origin, María Goeppert-Mayer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for proposing the nuclear shell model, is born. She was the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics after Marie Curie.
1907 Mexican visual artist Hermenegildo Bustos dies. He is a self-taught painter who, after working in various jobs, managed to stand out in the art world for the universality of his work.
1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria dies in the assassination attempt that sparked the First World War.
1915 Birth of Mexican writer and historian Rafael Bernal, who stands out as a playwright and short story writer, whose main work, “El complot mongol”, is full of bitter, acidic and hurtful humor. His language is witty and full of popular Mexican phrases and sayings.
1919 The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the First World War, and the League of Nations (unofficially, League of Nations) is created, the predecessor of the UN.
1932 Birth of Japanese-born American actor Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, nominated for an Oscar for his role as “Miyagi,” the martial arts master in “Karate Kid,” a film in which he appears in series II and III.
1991 The Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) is inaugurated in the city of Monterrey.
1993 Olga Costa, a painter of German origin and Mexican nationality, dies. Olga Costa created work in various techniques, responding to a figurative realist style.
1995 Aguas Blancas Massacre. The police of the Mexican state of Guerrero murder 17 farmers in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero.
1997 In the USA, boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for biting off a piece of boxer Evander Holyfield’s ear.
1997 In Valle Grande, Bolivia, the remains of the Argentine-Cuban commander Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967) and some of his companions are found.
1999 The Constitution establishes the right of every person to an environment adequate for their development and well-being.
2009 The Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco is awarded the Gold Medal of Fine Arts, in recognition of his literary and poetic work.
2011 Google launches its Google+ social networking service for users over 13 years of age; Currently, it is the second most popular social network in number of active users behind Facebook.
2023 Mexican actress and communicator Talina Fernández dies, at the age of 78.
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