2023-10-07 05:11:00
On October 8, 1988, the British musician and composer Freddie Mercury performed in Barcelona what would be his last live performance.
That day, 35 years ago, Freddie presented the song “Barcelona” with the soprano Montserrat Caballé, the theme of the 1992 Olympic Games in that Spanish city. However, the renowned singer did not get to see them, since he died on November 24, 1991.
Freddie Mercury, stage name of Farrokh Bulsara, was born on September 5, 1946 in the town of Stone Town, in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania.
Vocalist and the most emblematic figure of the British rock band Queen, he is considered one of the most charismatic voices in rock.
1988. 25 years ago, Freddie Mercury performed his last live performance in Barcelona. (Video capture) Freddie Mercury next to his piano performing great songs like Bohemian Rhapsody (Screenshot).
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Juan Domingo Perón.
1898 – FACES AND MASKS. The first issue of the magazine Caras y Caretas is published in the city of Buenos Aires, which marked an era in graphic journalism. It was founded by the Entre Ríos writer and journalist José Sixto Álvarez, popularly known as Fray Mocho.
1927 – CAESAR MILSTEIN. The Argentine biochemist César Milstein, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on monoclonal cells, was born in the Buenos Aires city of Bahía Blanca. He went into exile in the United Kingdom in the ’60s because of the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía.
César Milstein won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1984.
1927 – RICHARD GUIRALDES. At the age of 41, Argentine poet and writer Ricardo Güiraldes, author of Don Segundo Sombra, a key novel in Gauche literature, died in Paris.
1929 – MANUEL G. IRON. Born in the Spanish city of Almería is the graphic artist and cartoonist Manuel García Ferré, who developed his career in Argentina and is the creator of memorable children’s characters such as Anteojito, Hijitus, Larguirucho, Petete and Calculín, among others.
Ephemeris. It is 10 years since the death of Manuel García Ferré. (History Today)
1971 – JOHN LENNON. Imagine, the second solo studio album by former Beatle John Lennon, is released. The song that gives its name to the album became a hymn to peace and the desire for a better world.
1985 – MARTA LYNCH. At the age of 60, the writer Marta Lynch, one of the most prominent in the decade of the 70s and 80s, commits suicide in Buenos Aires. Among her best works are Mrs. Ordoñez, The Red Carpet and Don’t Sleep, do not leave Me.
The writer Marta Lynch
2006 – TRAGEDY OF ECHOES. Nine students and a teacher from the Buenos Aires Ecos secondary school died when the bus in which they were returning from a solidarity activity in the province of Chaco collided with a truck on Route 11. The incident also caused 40 injuries. In commemoration of the victims, Solidarity Student Day is celebrated on October 8.
Tragedy of Echoes: the cause prescribed
2023 – RURAL WORKER. Rural Worker’s Day is celebrated in commemoration of the date in 1944 on which the first Field Worker Statute was sanctioned.
Illustrative image.
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