Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on May 25 | Facts …

In May 25 anniversary These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1810. Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros resigns to lead the meeting emanating from Cabildo Abierto on May 22. The viceroy gives in to popular pressure led by Antonio Beruti and Domingo French, and who rejects this intermediate solution between those who requested a meeting in his place and those who wanted to keep him in office. A council assumes the representation of Fernando VII until the King of Spain regains his throne, but the ties with the crown will be severed. The council is headed by Cornelio Saavedra, the military leader of Buenos Aires. The secretaries are Juan José Paso and Mariano Moreno. There are six members: Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli, Domingo Matheu, Juan Larrea, Miguel de Azcuénaga and Manuel Alberti. The first meeting marks the founding event of Argentina as a nation. With the May Revolution, the process towards independence for the South American colonies began.

● 1901. Santa Rosa and Los Rosales, two teams from the La Boca district, merge and a new club is born: River Plate. Soon he will leave La Boca and settle in Núñez. Along with Boca, another club that has emerged in the Italian neighborhood of Buenos Aires, they play in Argentina’s most bitter rivalry and one of the most appealing classics in world football. River is the nation’s most successful team, with 36 home titles in the professional age.

● 1908. With the staging of Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi, the Teatro Colón is inaugurated. It is the main lyric hall in Argentina and one of the most important in the world. It has been closed for renovation since 2006 and reopened in 2010, during the bicentennial celebrations.

● 1973. Héctor Cámpora became president, marking the return to power of Peronism after 18 years of prohibition and the end of the dictatorship that began in 1966. The new president had won the elections of March 11. Delegate of Juan Domingo Perón, the impossibility of the former president to be able to compete places him in front of the ticket of the Front for the liberation of the vigilantes. On the night of May 25, political prisoners leave Devoto prison, at the start of the 49 days of government that will culminate with the resignation of Cámpora and his vice, Vicente Solano Lima, on July 13, in order to facilitate a new presidency of Perón.

● 1974. Arturo Jauretche dies at the age of 72. He was born in the city of Lincoln in Buenos Aires. He joined the UCR and, after the overthrow of Yrigoyen, he joined Forja. He later became a Peronist. At the end of the 1940s, he chaired the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires. His essay work rose to prominence after the 55-year coup, with titles such as The Prebisch plan: return to colonialism, Medium hair in Argentinian society, Politics and economics Yes Handbook of Argentinian Zonceas. He also wrote the poem The free pass, on the radical coup against the military coup of 30, and had Jorge Luis Borges as a prologue.

● 1993. Autogolpe in Guatemala. President Jorge Serrano Elías dissolves Congress after weeks of tension. His government is being questioned by various sectors and there are demonstrations in the streets against his policies. The repression intensifies and the opposition denounces the enrichment of the president. This responds with a self-coup. In addition to parliament, it dissolves the Supreme Court and suspends constitutional rights, such as freedom of the press and of assembly. However, the courts declared the decree that created the so-called Serranazo unconstitutional and protests ensued. The army withdrew its support for Serrano, who fled to Panama on June 1. Vice-President Gustavo Espina is disqualified, as is the former fugitive president, and cannot replace him. Congress appoints Ramiro de León Carpio to complete Serrano’s term until 1996.

● 2003. Nestor Kirchner assumes the presidency. The governor of Santa Cruz until then receives the fanfare and the cane from the hands of Eduardo Duhalde in Congress. He finished second in the April 27 elections, behind Carlos Menem, but the former president’s decision not to attend makes him the new president, with 22% of the vote. Kirchner was 53 years old at the time of his inauguration: he was the youngest president of the democracy restored in 1983. His inauguration concluded the turbulent period marked by the crisis of 2001.

● 2005. Liverpool and Milan take part in the most impressive final in the history of the Champions League in Istanbul. The Italians swept the English in the first half with a categorical 3-0. It seems impossible that in 45 minutes Liverpool could overtake the score. However, 15 minutes after the start of the second half, he achieved the feat, with three goals in six minutes. The 3 to 3 remains in the complementary and the British team wins on penalties by 3 to 2.

● 2020. A Minneapolis police operation ends in the suffocation death of George Floyd. Policeman Derek Chauvin cuts the 46-year-old African-American down with one knee, he presses on the neck of Floyd, who complains that he cannot breathe. It’s nine minutes of continuous pressure: Floyd suffocates to death. A cell phone recording shows the sequence and touches the whole world. The crime triggers a wave of violence in the main city of the state of Minnesota and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. Chauvin is tried and sentenced in 2021.

In addition, it is Africa Day: we remember the founding, in 1963, of the African Union.