2024-02-14 14:09:31
In the anniversaries of February 14 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1898. Scalabrini Ortiz is born
Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz was born in Corrientes. One of the pillars of historical revisionism, he was the author of British policy in the Río de la Plata e History of Argentine railwaysIn addition to the test The man who is alone and waiting. He approached Forja and supported Peronism. He died in 1959.
1929. The Valentine’s Day Massacre
Al Capone settles a dispute with a rival Chicago gang in what is known as the Valentine’s Day massacre. On Valentine’s Day, seven members of the so-called “North Side Gang” are turned on their backs and shot in a garage by four men disguised as police officers. The murderers were never identified and there is talk of complicity on the part of the Chicago police themselves..
1938. The birth of Antonio Dal Masetto
Antonio Dal Masetto is born in the Italian town of Intra. He arrived in Argentina at the age of twelve. In 1964 her first book of stories appeared, Seal. Considered one of the great Argentine storytellers, his novels include golden seven, Fire at will, It’s always hard to come home, Darkly strong is life, The incomparable land, There are some guys downstairs y The last fight. He passed away in 2015.
1988. The femicide of Alicia Muñiz at the hands of Carlos Monzón
Former world boxing champion Carlos Monzón murders his wife Alicia Muñiz in Mar del Plata. The woman is beaten to death in a crime that shocks the country. There was still no talk of femicides, but of “crimes of passion.” In July 1989, Monzón received a sentence of eleven years in prison.. He died in 1995 in a car accident, while temporarily leaving prison.
1989. Iran sentences Salman Rushdie to death
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dictates a fatwa, a legal pronouncement within Islam, and promises Paradise to whoever kills British writer Salman Rushdie. The reason is the publication of a novel, satanic verses, in which the author born in Bombay in 1947 makes a satire of Muhammad. The fatwa extends to anyone associated with the book and orthodox Muslim groups offer money for Rushdie’s head. The writer is taken into custody. The Japanese translator is murdered and the Norwegian editor is shot in the back. The Vatican condemns the fatwa, but also considers the book blasphemous. Rushdie lived in hiding for almost a decade, until 1998, when Iran announced that it would not seek his death. In 2022 he was attacked in New York with knives and lost an eye and the mobility of a hand.
1989. The real James Bond dies
Ornithologist James Bond dies in his hometown of Philadelphia. She had just turned 89 years old. Your book West Indian Birds It appeared in the library of Ian Fleming, who used its author’s name for a fictional character: a British spy. Fleming admitted that he took the name Bond for 007 and used it because he wanted it to sound as simple as possible..
2018. Massacre at a Florida school
High School Massacre in Parkland, Florida. A former student, Nikolas Cruz, 19, walks into school with a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle “Marjory Stoneman Douglas” and opens fire. 17 people die and 14 others are injured. It is the largest school gun tragedy in American history. Cruz had anticipated the possibility of shooting through publications on social networks and was considered a racist by his peers. In 2022 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
2021. The death of Carlos Menem
Carlos Menem dies at 90. He was born in Anillaco, La Rioja, on July 2, 1930. Governor of his province in 1973, he was imprisoned after the 1976 coup. He became governor again in 1983 and won a new mandate in 1987. The following year he defeated Antonio Cafiero in the presidential internal of Justicialism. On May 14, 1989, he defeated Eduardo Angeloz and became president.. He took office six months ahead of schedule, due to the serious economic crisis. Menem achieved economic stability by tying the peso to the dollar. The convertibility system lasted until the outbreak of 2001. Under his mandate, public companies were privatized, the economy was deregulated and millions of people fell into unemployment. He pardoned the genocidaires and his government was characterized by corruption scandals. During that period, the attacks on the Israeli embassy and the AMIA also took place (for this last event he was prosecuted as an accessory and acquitted), as well as the blowing up of the Río Tercero Military Factory. Thanks to the Pact of Olivos, he achieved the constitutional reform of 1994, which made his reelection possible in 1995.. He handed over command to Fernando de la Rúa in 1999. He was imprisoned for almost six months for the cause of arms smuggling to Ecuador and Croatia. Candidate in 2003, he chose not to contest the runoff with Néstor Kirchner. From 2005 until his death, he was senator for La Rioja and it remained in the Upper House despite the convictions for Río Tercero and the sale of the Rural property.
Furthermore, it is the Valentine’s Day; and the World Congenital Heart Disease Day.