The ephemeris of the day: what happened on August 24 | Events in Argentina and around the world

In ephemeris of August 24 These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1572. French Catholics commit the Saint-Barthélemy massacre against the Huguenots (Protestants), as part of the religious wars in the country. It is estimated that 3,000 Calvinists are assassinated in Paris. The violence that began on St. Bartholomew’s Day spread to the rest of France in the weeks that followed, with between 10,000 and 20,000 massacred. Everything was triggered by the attack on Admiral Gaspar de Coligny, who was a Calvinist. King Charles IX and his mother, Catherine de Medici, are accused of being the instigators of the massacre.

● 1899. Jorge Luis Borges, the greatest Spanish-speaking writer of the 20th century, was born. He grew up in his hometown of Buenos Aires and traveled with his family to Geneva, where he received his high school education. Back home, he began his literary career. Borges’ central work is composed of the tales of Fiction and Aleph, the trials of Other inquisitions and a volume that brings together poems and short stories: The manufacturer. He has also published collections of poems, among others, Fervor of Buenos Aires, Tiger gold, The number and The conspirators. He co-wrote with Adolfo Bioy Casares books such as Six problems for Don Isidro Parodi and Chronicles of Bustos Domecq. He was furiously anti-Peronist. He applauded the coups of 1955 and 1976, but repudiated state terrorism. In addition, he taught at UBA. He received the Cervantes Prize in 1979. He died in Geneva on June 14, 1986. His birthday is commemorated in the country as Reader’s Day.

● 1933. Alberto Olmedo was born in Rosario. He began his career as a switchman then passed in front of the cameras with his character of Captain Piluso, with whom he conquered the children’s audience. Later he devoted himself to picaresque comedy in cinema, theater and television. On the big screen, he starred in about twenty comedies with Jorge Porcel. He had the odds with the cycle Don’t touch the button. A joke when the announcer announced “Alberto Olmedo has disappeared”, when he began his cycle on Canal 13, the dictatorship which had just been installed in 1976, it cost him two years without his program. He died on March 5, 1988, in Mar del Plata, falling from the eleventh-floor balcony where he resided during the summer theatrical season. He was 54 years old and was living his moment of greatest popularity.

● 1954. Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas committed suicide in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 72. The 1930 military coup that toppled Washington Luis Pereira de Sousa three weeks before the end of his term catapulted him to power. He reigned constitutionally from 1934 and in 1937 he gave a coup that established the so-called Estado Novo, a proto-fascist regime. He was deposed in 1945. Through the ballot box he returned to government in 1951. Vargas committed suicide in the midst of a serious political crisis.

● 1956. Kenji Mizoguchi, one of the most influential filmmakers in Japan and in film history, dies in Tokyo at the age of 58. His career began during the silent film era and includes, among other titles, The story of the last chrysanthemum, Tales of the Pale Moon, The sacrilegious hero and The street of shame.

● 1997. Pianist and composer Tete Montoliu dies in Barcelona, ​​his hometown, at the age of 64. Blind from birth, he was the first great jazz musician to emerge from Spain. He left an extensive discography and recorded with Dexter Gordon and Anthony Braxton, among others.

● 2014. English actor and director Richard Attenborough dies in London five days before his 91st birthday. Brother of naturalist and science popularizer David Attenborough, he excelled in cinema in films such as The flight of fenix and jurassic park. As a director he won the Oscar for Gandhi.