February 23: what happened on a day like today?

Kidnappings, departures of important figures and births. All this and more is remembered in ephemeris of February 23 in Argentina and around the world.

• 1807 – Birth of Florencio Varela, Argentine lawyer, politician and journalist.
• 1820 – Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Entre Ríos sign the Pillar Treaty.
• 1855 – Death of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
• 1919 – Mussolini founds the Italian Fascist Party.
• 1927 – Birth of Argentine actress and conductor Mirtha Legrand.
• 1936 – Argentine actor Federico Luppi is born.
• 1940 – Birth of Peter Fonda, American actor.
• 1958 – Rebels led by Fidel Castro kidnap Argentinian motorist Juan Manuel Fangio in Cuba.
• 1967 – Death of Pepe Arias, Argentinian film and theater actor.
• 1978 – Birth of Residente (René Pérez Joglar), Puerto Rican musician.

• 1983 – Birth of Emily Blunt, British actress.
• 1994 – Birth of Dakota Fanning, American actress.
• 2002 – The FARC kidnaps presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt in Colombia.

• 2005 – The effects predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity for the neighborhood of black holes are confirmed for the first time.
• 2020 – Chitetsu Watanabe, the oldest man in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records, dies at 112.
• Drum Day is celebrated.

THE NATION