Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on January 26 | H …

In January 26 ephemeris These events that happened a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out.

● 1944. Birth of Angela Davis, one of the great representatives of feminism in the United States. A political activist, she was one of the faces of the American left in the 1970s and was running for vice-president of the Communist Party of the United States in 1984. She published her autobiography in 1974. John Lennon and the Rolling Stones have dedicated songs to her.

● 1955. Eddie Van Halen was born in Amsterdam. The guitarist, with his brother Alex, formed the group Van Halen, one of the most enduring of hard rock. They recorded 14 studio albums. He died of throat cancer on October 6, 2020, ten days after the death of Mark Stone, another of the group’s founders.

● 1972. A Croatian far-right group planted a bomb on Yugoslavian JAT flight 367, the Yugoslav flag line, which had taken off from Stockholm for Belgrade. The plane broke into three and fell near Srbská Kamenice, now the Czech Republic. 28 people were traveling. There is only one survivor: the 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulović. He fell without a parachute to 10,160 meters. He suffers from fractures of his skull, pelvis and both legs, in addition to ruptured three vertebrae and several ribs. He spent several days in a coma and his only aftereffect was a limp. He is the person who fell the highest without a parachute and he lived to tell the story. However, he had no recollection of the incident and had no problem flying again. Some versions deny the official version and say that the plane was accidentally shot down by a Czech missile and the woman fell from a lower height. Vulović died in 2016.

● 2019. French composer Michel Legrand dies at 87. He was responsible for the soundtrack of Umbrellas of Cherbourgby Jaques Demy. This film made history because it was sung in its entirety. Legrand won three Hollywood Oscars, including one for Summer 42, and collaborated with jazz musicians. He recorded the solo piano work of Erik Satie.

● 2020. Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter crash. Considered one of the best basketball players of all time, he perished along with eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter. He was 41 years old and an NBA emblem for decades. He played his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers, where he won five titles and retired in 2016. He won Olympic gold with his team in Beijing 2008 and faced a sexual abuse complaint .

It is also International Customs Day.