Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on April 18 | Facts…

In ephemeris of April 18 These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out.

● 1955. Albert Einstein dies in Princeton. He was 76 years old and decades ago he had become the world’s most famous scientist. His theory of relativity, postulated in 1905, changed the paradigms of modern physics. Ten years later, he presented the full version of the theory, which reformulated the notion of gravity and opened the way for studies of cosmology. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He left Germany for Nazism. In his later years he advocated for world peace.

● 1956. Fairy tale in Monaco. Prince Rainier, head of state of the second smallest country in the world after the Vatican, marries actress Grace Kelly. The bride abandons her Hollywood career, which even won her an Oscar a year earlier. It is the first major royal wedding after WWII to gain media attention around the world. They contract a civil bond and the next day the religious marriage takes place. The marriage lasted until 1982, when the princess died in a car accident. They had three children: Carolina, Estefanía and Alberto. Rainiero died in 2005 and was replaced by Alberto.

● 1976. Actor Rodrigo de la Serna was born. It was consecrated at the turn of the century with To occupy and since then, I have alternated cinema and television. On the big screen he was seen in Blind cock, Motorcycle logs, Chronicle of a leak, San Martín: crossing the Andes Yes Call me Francisco. On TV he appeared in Brothers and detectives, The pointer, The lobbyist Yes The money heist. He also performed in plays, such as Amadeus. In addition, he ventures into music, with the group El Yotivenco, a quartet of Creole guitars with which he performs tangos, candombes and milongas.

● 1995. Former President Arturo Frondizi dies at 86. Born in Paso de los Libres in 1908, he joined the UCR. He was one of the 44 deputies of the radical bloc during the first Peronism and a running mate of Ricardo Balbín in 1951. He published the book Politics and Oil, in which he spoke of the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the hands of the state as the engine of the economy, in response to Perón’s contract with Standard Oil. After the coup d’état of 1955, he broke with radicalism. He formed the UCRI, while Balbín remained with the party structure, converted into the UCR of the people. He agrees with an exiled Perón and the votes of proscribed Peronism allow him to take the presidency in 1958. He puts into practice the opposite of what is said in his book and cedes oil exploitation to the northern companies. American. Developmentalism proposed a variant of import substitution and applied an orthodox program with Álvaro Alsogaray. He repressed with the Conintes plan and endured more than thirty military proposals. Frondizi annulled the 1962 elections, given the advance of Peronism and military pressure, but did not prevent him from being overthrown.

● 2002. In Italy, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl died at the age of 87. He gained worldwide fame in 1947 with the crossing of the Kon-Tiki, the raft with which he traveled from Peru to Polynesia in an attempt to prove that the ancient inhabitants of America could have crossed the Pacific. The trip lasted 101 days and 7,000 kilometers. Later, the expedition of the papyrus boat Ra II will arrive, with which he wanted to demonstrate that the Egyptians could have sailed the Atlantic.

In addition, it is International Day for Monuments and Sites and World Amateur Radio Day.