August 4th anniversary – Telam

Ephemrid of August 4

1526 – JUAN S. ELCANO. At the age of 50, the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastin Elcano died in the Pacific Ocean, which made the first round the world trip finishing the expedition of the Portuguese sailor Fernando de Magallanes, discoverer of the strait that bears his name in the extreme south of South America.

1693 – DOM PÉRIGNON. French Benedictine monk and cellar master Dom Pierre Pérignon accidentally discovered champagne while attempting to create a white wine with red grapes and was unable to remove the bubbles produced by fermentation. It happened in the Abbey of Hautvillers de Epernay, a town in the French region of Champagne, hence the name sparkling wine.

1900 – ARTURO ILLIA. Doctor and politician Arturo Humberto Illia was born in the city of Pergamino in Buenos Aires, head of the Radical Civic Union and Argentine president between October 1963 and June 1966, when he was overthrown by a military coup led by General Juan Carlos Ongana. .

1901 – LOUIS ARMSTRONG. Born in the city of New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) the American trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, one of the most charismatic and innovative figures in the history of jazz.

1905 – STUDENTS FOR MONEY. A group of young ex-members of Gymnastics and Fencing founds Club Estudiantes de La Plata during a meeting in the “New York” shoe store in the capital Buenos Aires. Estudiantes de La Plata have won four Libertadores de Amrica cups, one intercontinental championship and five national championships.

1944 – ANNA FRANK. Agents of the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany, arrest the German Anne Frank and her Jewish family in Amsterdam while they have been hiding for two years with Dutch friends who are also arrested. The author of the Diary of Anne Frank died in 1945 in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, when she was 15 years old.

1957 – JUAN M. FANGIO. Motorsport driver Juan Manuel secures his fifth and final Formula 1 world title by winning the German Grand Prix with Italian team Maserati at the Nrburgring circuit, one of the best and most memorable races in the world. history of the sport.

1976 – ENRIQUE ANGELERI. At the age of 53, the Bishop of La Rioja, Enrique Angelelli, was assassinated while driving a truck on his way back from having celebrated a mass in the Riojan town of Chamical. His murder was faked by agents of the civic military dictatorship as a car accident. Angeleri was beatified as a “martyr of the hatred of the faith” by Pope Francis in 2019.

2020 – EXPLOSION IN THE PORT. The explosion of some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse in the port of Beirut, where the unstable fertilizer compound had been stored since 2014, left 207 dead and around 6,500 injured, one of the biggest disasters in the world. history of the Lebanese capital.

2021 – BAKER DAY. National Baker’s Day is celebrated in commemoration of the date in 1887 when the Cosmopolitan Society for the Resistance and Placement of Bakers, the first trade union for this profession in the country, was founded.