Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on May 31 | Facts …

In May 31st birthday These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1905. Blanca Luz Brum was born in the Uruguayan town of Pan de Azúcar. Writer and journalist, she married the Peruvian poet Juan Parra del Riego, from whom she was widowed soon after. She later began her relationship with Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros when he passed through Montevideo. When Siqueiros was hired to paint a mural in the basement of Natalio Botana’s house in Don Torcuato, he began an affair with the strongman of the Argentine press. In Buenos Aires, she was in contact with the labor movements that gave birth to Peronism and later moved to Chile, where fear of popular unity led her to embrace Pinochetism. His work includes Atmosphere above. Twenty poems Yes The last Robinson. He died in 1985.

● 1930. Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco. His acting career began on television before moving on to the movies. For a bunch of dollars, from 1964, made it a star. Under the orders of Sergio Leone, he shot two other films that make up the so-called dollar trilogy, and which are For a handful of dollars more Yes The good the bad and the ugly. In the 70s, by the hand of Don Siegel, he gave life to the policeman Harry Callahan Dirty Harry. He also collaborated with Siegel on Alcatraz Leak. The 80s saw him turn to directing. His biopic of Charlie Parker, Bird, it generated prestige. For The unforgivable Yes Million dollar baby won the Oscar. Other films: White man, black heart, A perfect world, Mystical river, Gran Torino, Invictus, The mule Yes The Richard Jewell case. He is still active.

● 1931. Juan Carlos Copes was born in Buenos Aires. With María Nieves Rego, he forms an emblematic couple of dancers. Both have traveled the stages of Argentina and the world and contributed to the international spread of tango. Copes contracted coronavirus: he overcame the disease but was weakened and died on January 15, 2021.

● 1962. Adolf Eichmann is hanged in the city of Ramla, after being convicted in the trial held in Jerusalem for his central role in the Holocaust. The Nazi officer went into hiding under a false name in Argentina, where Mossad agents captured him. He recognized his true identity and was secretly brought to Israel for the first major trial against a Nazi hierarch since the Nuremberg trials. Eichmann was the one who designed the engineering for the transfer of Jews confined to ghettos for mass murder in concentration camps. He was 56 when he was executed.

● 2010. Rubén Juárez dies at the age of 62. Born in Ballesteros, in the province of Cordoba, the singer and bandoneon player had become one of the great figures of tango in recent decades. He rose to fame with his participation in Circular Saturdays, the cycle of Nicolás Mancera, at the end of the 1960s. Since then, he has produced an extensive discography. He was recognized as an illustrious citizen of the city of Buenos Aires.

It is also World No Tobacco Day and Mathematicians Day. In Argentina, the national holiday of the tourist guide is celebrated; National Beer Day; and Nuclear Energy Day, for the anniversary of the National Atomic Energy Commission, established on May 31, 1950.