In the anniversaries of April 27 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1927. The birth of Tato Bores
Mauricio Borensztein is born in Buenos Aires. He adopted the name Tato Bores: He stood out as a stand-up comedian and became an icon of political humor in the country. Called “Comic Actor of the Nation”, its television cycles brought together several generations of Argentines in front of the television. He also acted in theater and film. He died in 1996.
1937. Antonio Gramsci dies
He dies in Rome Antonio Gramsci, at 46 years old. Founder of the Italian Communist Party, he was one of the great Marxist theorists of the 20th century. He spent years imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s regime, which released him when his health was already damaged. A brain hemorrhage ended his life. The texts that he wrote during his imprisonment constitute the bulk of his work. The calls Prison notebookswith almost 3 thousand pages, were published in six volumes after the Second War.
1977. HG Oesterheld disappears
The military dictatorship kidnaps Hector Germán Oesterheld. The comic book writer was 57 years old. They took him in La Plata and he has been missing since then. The repression also took its toll on his family: his four daughters were kidnapped and murdered. The creator of The Eternaut and Mort Cinder He passed through El Vesuvius, one of the most ferocious clandestine detention centers. Based on the testimonies collected, it is believed that he was murdered sometime in 1978..
1979. The first strike against the dictatorship
First national strike against the dictatorship established in 1976. After three years and one month, unionism can carry out its first measure of force. In the middle, there were some isolated fighting plans, and hundreds of leaders imprisoned and disappeared. The strike is organized by the Commission of 25, which brings together that number of unions at a time when the CGT was intervening, and has a high level of compliance. Saúl Ubaldini is one of the union leaders who begins to take center stage after that strike..
1994. Mandela, president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela, the most famous political prisoner of the second half of the 20th century, the man who spent 27 years imprisoned by apartheid supremacists, becomes president of South Africa. What would have been unimaginable a few years before becomes a reality. The leader of the African National Congress wins the first free elections in the country, in which the black majority is allowed to vote. It is imposed with the 62 percent of the votes for a five-year term, in which he will seek the coexistence of blacks and whites under the rule of law. The elections are held under a provisional Constitution, which replaces the previous one. lThe current Constitution will be the work of the Mandela government, in 1996.
2003. Elections: Menem and Kirchner go to the runoff
Presidential elections in Argentina. Justicialism competes with three candidates: former president Carlos Menem, the fleeting president Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, and the governor of Santa Cruz, Néstor Kirchner. The UCR presents Leopoldo Moreau, while Elisa Carrió competes for the ARI and Ricardo López Murphy for Recrear. The results of the first elections after the great crisis of 2001 give victory to Menem with a mere 25 percenthalf of what was obtained in 1995, when he was re-elected. Kirchner, sponsored by interim president Eduardo Duhalde, reaches 22 percent. Radicalism scratches 2 percent, in the worst result in its centenary history. The day holds the first ballot in history, between Menem and Kirchner, which will not take place due to Menem’s decision not to compete.
2007. Goodbye to Rostropovich
go dead Mstislav Rostropovich at 80 years old. Considered one of the greatest virtuosos in the history of the cello, he was also a conductor. Dissident during the times of the Soviet Union, he left the USSR in 1974, only to return after the fall of communism..
Furthermore, it is the World Design Day.
