In 24th July Panchang These events are the most different from what happened today in Argentina and in the world:
1783. Birth of Simon Bolivar
Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas. He was the liberator of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador. Trained in Spain, like José de San Martín, he met the second liberator in Guayaquil in 1822, after the independence of Peru. He sought to consolidate a great political entity in South America: Gran Colombia. He died in Santa Marta, Colombia on December 17, 1830, at the age of 47.
1911. Discovery of Machu Picchu
American explorer Hiram Bingham reached Machu Picchu and made the existence of the Incas city known to the world. It is accepted today that the landowner Augustin Lizzarraga arrived in 1902, although it was Bingham who documented the existence of Machu Picchu (“Old Mount” in Quichua) in images, also attesting to Lizzarraga’s passage nine years earlier. An inscription was also found. Some 50,000 archaeological fragments were taken and the Peruvian government was able to recover some 300. The Lost City of the Incas has been a World Heritage Site since 1983.
1964. Birth of Vicentico
Gabriel Fernandez Capello, known as vicentico, Singer from Los Fabulosos Cadillac, he led the band with popularity that crossed the borders of Argentina, and in 2002 he began his solo career. He has received two Latin Grammys and three Carlos Gardel Awards.
1969. Muere Witold Gombrowicz
Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz died at the age of 64 in the French city of Vence. his first novel fardidurkeSince 1937. Two years later he arrived in Buenos Aires for a literary congress, and the start of the second war forced him to stay in Argentina: he left only in 1963. He captured his images of the country Argentine newspaper, His novel from 1953 is transatlantic, He also wrote the play: wedding I Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy,
1974. End of dictatorship in Greece
With the assumption of Constantino Karamanlis as prime minister, the dictatorship of colonels in Greece comes to an end. The former prime minister, who ruled between 1955 and 1963, takes office after the failure of a military operation in Cyprus. Turkey’s response to Greek intervention hastened the end of the first Western European dictatorship since World War II. The military carried out a coup in 1967 and established an authoritarian regime. After the return to democracy, the Greeks ceased to be a constitutional monarchy: a referendum turns the country into a republic.
1980. Muray Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers died at the age of 54. One of the greatest comedians in film history, Briton was seen in films in the 1950s such as death quintet, In the next decade he gave life to Inspector Clouseau in the saga of pink leopard, He worked under Stanley Kubrick lolita You doctor unusual, For portraying three characters in the second film, he received his first Oscar nomination. He starred in comedy classics such as unforgettable party, One of his last roles was a personal project: an adaptation of the novel. from the gardenFor which he received his second Oscar nomination a few months before his death.
