In the anniversaries of June 16 These events stand out that on a day like today occurred in Argentina and the world:
1904. Joyce, Ulises and the most famous day in the history of literature
Leopold Bloom leaves his home in Dublin and tours the city. His adventures on that normal day can be extrapolated to the Odyssey in the pen of James Joyce. The writer tells the story of Bloom, his wife, and young Stephen Dedalus in Ulises, the most influential novel of the 20th century, which was published in Paris in 1922. It is probably the most famous day in the history of literature. Apparently, Joyce chose June 16, 1904 as it was the day he began his relationship with Nora Barnacle. The so-called Bloomsday generates activities related to Ulises and Joyce in Dublin and other cities every June 16.
1949. Jairo is born
Mario Rubén González, better known as Jairus. One of the great voices of Argentine popular music, she settled in Spain and France in the 70s. He collaborated with Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, as well as with Mercedes Sosa and Atahualpa Yupanqui.. She sang before 800,000 people the night of Raúl Alfonsín’s speech at the closing of the radical campaign in 1983. He has recorded the Argentine National Anthem. His career extends to this day with a great discography.
1955. The bombing of Plaza de Mayo
Navy planes bomb Plaza de Mayo. Vice Admiral Samuel Toranzo Calderón and Rear Admiral Benjamín Gargiulo order the attack, within the framework of Juan Perón’s conflict with the Church. On June 11, in a confusing episode, an Argentine flag had been burned during an anti-Peronist demonstration. Gloster Meteor planes take off for what is supposed to be a reparation exhibition of the national flag. However, They launch bombs on the civilian population and attack La Rosada, with the aim of killing Perón. There are more than 300 dead. A squadron of loyal aviators goes out to repel the attack and the first aerial combat in history over Buenos Aires takes place.. The president emerges unharmed and the attempt fails. The coup planes flee to Montevideo. Gargiulo commits suicide that night, while Peronist protesters attack several churches in Buenos Aires. Perón will fall three months later.
1963. A woman’s first trip to space
Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel to space. The Soviet cosmonaut travels aboard Vostok 6. She returns on June 19 after spending 70 hours in space (more than the seven North American astronauts of Project Mercury combined) and orbiting the Earth 48 times. He later pursued a political career in the USSR and, after the fall of communism, gained a seat in the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament..
1976. The Soweto massacre
Young black people go out to protest in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg. They protest against the compulsory teaching of Afrikaans, the language of white supremacists. The protest is brutally repressed by the police. The authorities recognize 23 dead students, but unofficially there is talk of between 700 and 1,000 fatalities.. The Soweto massacre gives a global dimension to the drama of apartheid in a country that has enshrined racism in its Constitution.
2012. Goodbye to Alicia Steimberg
The writer Alicia Steimberg dies at the age of 78. Born in 1933, she graduated as a normal teacher. From 1971 is her literary debut, Musicians and watchmakersbook that followed crazy 101 Two years later. The novel When I say Magdalena won him the Planeta Prize in 1992. His later titles include Learn to write and Julia’s music. With Ana María Shua she compiled the Anthology of passionate love. She coordinated literary workshops and was an English translator.
2017. Helmut Kohl dies
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl dies at 87 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, his hometown. He became head of the Christian Democratic Union in 1973. The breakdown of the government pact between social democrats and liberals made him chancellor of the then West Germany in 1982. Eight years later he became head of state of reunified Germany.. He revalidated his leadership at the polls as the country became the economic engine of Europe. He was defeated by Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder in 1998 and left politics.
2019. The blackout that left almost all of Argentina without electricity
An electrical blackout leaves much of Argentina in the dark. The cut also extends to Paraguay and Uruguay. An operational error by Transener, the energy transportation company, leaves the Colonia Elía-Campana high-tension line out of service. The province of Tierra del Fuego is the only one that is not affected. Some 50 million people are left without supply. The cut begins at 7 in the morning on that Sunday, which was also Father’s Day. At 10 the service is normalized in Buenos Aires, and at noon in much of Uruguay. It wasn’t until 8:30 p.m. that the incident was resolved..
2023. Daniel Ellsberg passes away
Daniel Ellsberg, the US Armed Forces analyst who leaked the so-called “Pentagon Papers,” dies at 92. The documents published by The New York Times in 1971 they showed the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War and were shocked by the statement that Lyndon Johnson’s government had lied to justify its intervention in Southeast Asia. Ellsberg stole the classified material and became a symbol of the fight to end the war. In 2006 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, known as “Alternative Nobel Prize”.
In addition, Argentina celebrates the Engineer’s Day; and it is the International Biotechnologist Day.
