The ephemeris of the day: what happened on July 24 | Events in Argentina and around the world

In July 24 ephemeris These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1783. 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 other Liberator in Guayaquil, in 1822, after Peruvian independence. He seeks to consolidate a great political unity in South America: Greater Colombia. He died in Santa Marta, Colombia, at the age of 47, on December 17, 1830.

● 1911. American explorer Hiram Bingham arrives at Machu Picchu and makes the world aware of the existence of the city of the Incas. Today, it is believed that the landowner Agustín Lizarrága arrived in 1902, although it was Bingham who documented in pictures the existence of Machu Picchu (“Old Mountain”, in Quichua), in addition to having found an inscription which certified the passage of Lizárraga nine years earlier. It took some 50,000 archaeological pieces and the Peruvian government was able to recover around 300. The Lost City of the Incas has been a World Heritage Site since 1983.

● 1964. Gabriel Fernández Capello, better known as Vincentian. Singer of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, he led the group with a popularity that crossed the borders of Argentina and in 2002 he began his solo career. He received two Latin Grammys and three Carlos Gardel Awards.

● 1969. Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz dies in Vence at the age of 64. His first novel is Ferdydurke, 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 did not leave until 1963. He captured his images of the country in Argentinian newspaper. 1953 is his novel Transatlantic. He also wrote about the theater: The wedding e Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy.

● 1974. With the accession of Constantinos Karamanlis to the post of Prime Minister, the dictatorship of the colonels in Greece came to an end. The former Prime Minister, who reigned between 1955 and 1963, takes office after the failure of the military operation in Cyprus. The Turkish reaction to Greek intervention precipitated the end of the first dictatorship in Western Europe since the Second War. The army staged a coup in 1967 and established an authoritarian regime. After the return to democracy, the Greeks are no longer a constitutional monarchy: a referendum transforms the country into a republic.

● 1980. Peter Sellers dies at the age of 54. One of the greatest comedic actors in film history, the Briton was seen in the 1950s in films such as The quintet of death. Over the next decade, he brought Inspector Clouseau to life in the saga of The pink Panther. He worked under Stanley Kubrick on Lolita Yes Unusual doctor. For characterizing three characters in the second film, he received his first Oscar nomination. He starred in comedy classics like The unforgettable party. One of his last roles was a personal project: the adaptation of the novel Of the garden, for which he earned his second Oscar nomination a few months before he died.