Why is it celebrated every November 22 in Argentina?

2023 – Geographers’ Day. day geographic On the anniversary of the death of expert Francisco Pacacio Moreno.

Moreno died at the age of 67 on November 22, 1919 in Buenos Aires. The geographer, paleontologist, naturalist, and researcher is known for exploring Patagonia and promoting the creation of national parks. He was also the architect of the border planning with Chile.

More anniversaries

1859 – Cecilia Grierson. Cecilia Grierson, the first woman to obtain a medical degree in the country, was born in Buenos Aires, after graduating from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires at the age of thirty. She founded the School of Nurses of the Argentine Medical Service that currently bears her name.

1875 – Pablo Podesta. Uruguayan actor, sculptor and musician Pablo Podesta, considered one of the founders of the Creole circus, was born in Montevideo. He was one of the greatest figures of Argentine theater of his time.

1955 – Eva Peron. Under the civil-military regime headed by Pedro Aramburu, a group of soldiers led by the head of the army’s intelligence service, Carlos Mori König, kidnapped the remains of María Eva Duarte de Peron in the General Union of Labor, where they were resting. Since the death of the First Lady in 1952.

1963 – John F. Kennedy. At the age of 46, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper while traveling through the city of Dallas (Texas, USA) in a convertible car with his wife Jacqueline Bouvier and an official delegation. Lee Harvey Oswald, who was murdered by gangster Jack Ruby at the door of the police station where he was being held, is charged with assassination. The authorship of the assassination and its accomplices remains controversial.

1997 – Michael Hutchence. Australian musician, composer and singer Michael Hutchence, singer of the famous rock band INXS, with whom he sold more than 65 million records, died in Sydney at the age of 37.

2014 – Lionel Messi. Barcelona’s Argentine star Lionel Messi became the all-time top scorer in the Spanish Football League by scoring three of the goals in his team’s 5-1 victory over Sevilla, achieving 253 victories compared to the record of 251 set by the Spaniard Telmo Zarra.

2023 – University is free. Free University Day, declared in 2007 in memory of Decree No. 29337 of 1949 issued by President and General Juan Domingo Perón to establish free access to national universities, is celebrated.

2023- Music Day. World Music Day is celebrated to commemorate the death of Saint Cecilia, a Christian martyr and patron saint of musicians.

Another anniversary

1497. – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama circles the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa).

1822.- The Verona Conference (Italy) decided to send one hundred thousand Saint Louisians to Spain.

1824.- Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua publish the constitution that unites the five countries in a union governed by a president, leaving wide freedom to the presidents of each country.

1873.- The French ocean liner “Ville de Havre” sank as a result of a collision during its voyage to New York, killing 226 people.

1928.- The first work “Bolero” by the French composer Maurice Ravel was performed at the Paris Opera.

1934.- Engineer and pilot Ramon Torres, the first Spanish pilot to cross the Sahara, begins his journey to Africa.

1943 – Lebanon gains its independence from France.

1955.- The Soviet Union exploded a hydrogen bomb in Siberia.

– After the overthrow of Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron, the mummified body of Eva Peron was kidnapped.

1956.- Opening of the XVI Olympic Games in Melbourne (Australia).

1969.- Signing in San José, Costa Rica, of the American Convention on Human Rights, or the so-called San José Charter.

1975.- Juan Carlos I of Bourbon is sworn in as King of Spain.

1977.- Spain and Portugal sign a friendship treaty replacing the Iberian Pact.

Concorde makes its first direct flight between Paris and New York.

1983.- The Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) kidnaps Jaime Betancur Cuartas, brother of the President of the Republic, Belisario Betancur, in Bogotá.

1989.- The President of the Lebanese Republic, Rene Moawad, and 14 other people were assassinated in Beirut, by the explosion of a powerful bomb.

1990 – Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1992.- The pro-government coalition “Cambio 90-Nueva Mayoría” wins the founding elections in Peru.

1995.- Simon Peres becomes Prime Minister of Israel’s twelfth government when he is sworn in before Parliament in Jerusalem.

Pixar Animation Studios released Toy Story, the first computer-generated feature film.

2002.- The Argentine government announced the end of the Corralito banking operation on the 2nd of the following December, which had been imposed the previous year.

2004.- One day after the presidential elections in Ukraine, the Central Electoral Commission announced the victory of Prime Minister Viktor Yukanovych. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko calls on his supporters to carry out massive protests against election fraud. The “Orange Revolution” begins.

2005.- The Bundestag elects conservative Angela Merkel as new chancellor. She is the first woman in German history to hold a government position.

2006.- The United States and Colombia sign a free trade agreement that must be approved by the parliaments of the two countries.

2010.- The German government announces the suspension of compulsory military service as of July 1, 2011.

– 351 people died and 750 others were injured in a stampede in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, during the Water Festival.

2015.- Election of conservative Mauricio Macri as President of Argentina.

2017.- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentences former Bosnian Serb military officer Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment for his responsibility for genocide and war crimes.

birth

1869 – André Gide, French writer. Nobel Prize in 1947.

1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French soldier and statesman.

1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer.

1940 – Terry Gilliam, American actor, director, and painter.

1947 – Alfredo Cristiani, former President of El Salvador.

1950 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer.

1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress.

1967 – Boris Becker, former German tennis player.

1984. – Scarlett Johansson, an American actress of European descent.

1986. – Oscar Pistorius, South African athlete.

1995. – Katherine McNamara, American actress.

Deaths

1908 – Claude Paul Tavanel, French musician.

1916. – Jack London, American writer.

1929 – Jaime Ferran, Spanish microbiologist.

1937 – Philip Laszlo, British painter.

1963 – Aldous Huxley, English writer.

1980 – Mae West, American actress.

2007. – Maurice Béjart, French choreographer.

– Lola Maceo, Spanish painter.

2011. – Lynn Margulis, American scientist.

– Paul Motian, American jazz drummer.

2012. – Bryce Courtenay, a South African writer, settled in Australia.

2021. – Noah Gordon, American writer.

Source: Private and agencies.