The ephemeris of the day: what happened on July 31 | Events in Argentina and around the world

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

● 1886. Franz Liszt dies at 74. The Hungarian pianist and composer had a fame similar to that of a modern rock star in mid-19th century Europe. A virtuoso performer, he was one of the leading musicians of romanticism. After an eventful love life and the death of two children, he became a Franciscan monk. His daughter Cosima married Richard Wagner. Liszt left works such as the two piano concertos, the 19 Hungarian rhapsodies (he orchestrated six of them), the symphonic poems, the Sonata in B minor and the piano cycle. Years of pilgrimage.

● 1919. Primo Levi was born in Turin. He graduated in chemistry. He spent ten months in the Monowice concentration camp, within the Auschwitz complex. They expelled him in a group of 650 people, of whom twenty survived. After the war, he wrote books which reported on the experience on the ground, and which form part of the indispensable bibliography on the Holocaust told by a survivor: if it’s a man, Truce Yes The sunk and the saved. On April 11, 1987, he fell in the stairwell on the third floor of the building he was living in, in what would have been suicide.

● 1956. Adrian Abonizio was born in Rosario. Singer-songwriter and guitarist, he is one of the representatives of the Rosarina Trova which stood out in the 80s with personalities such as Juan Carlos Baglietto, Jorge Fandermole and Silvina Garré. He released eight solo albums and one with the group Rosarinos (formed with Fandermole, Rubén Goldín and Lalo de los Santos), in 1997.

● 1974. The Triple A assassinates the vigilante deputy Rodolfo Ortega Peña in the heart of Buenos Aires. The far-right group shot him dead while in a taxi and injured his wife. Ortega Peña was 37 years old. Edited the magazine Militancy with Eduardo Luis Duhalde, with whom he had already written Felipe Valais. Switched to the system, on the disappearance of the Peronist activist in 1962.

● 1981. Omar Torrijos, a strong man in Panama since the 1968 coup, dies in a plane crash. The plane carrying the 52-year-old soldier disappeared from radar and was found a few days later in the jungle in Coclé province. Even today, it is doubtful whether it was an accident or a CIA attack. Torrijos had negotiated in 1977 the return of the Panama Canal to the United States. The Jimmy Carter administration agreed to relinquish control on December 31, 1999, which eventually happened.

● 2017. One of the emblematic faces of twentieth century cinema dies: Jeanne Moreau. The legendary French actress was 89 years old. It started in the theater. In the late 1950s, she was seen in two Louis Malle films: Lift to scaffolding Yes Lovers. For Moderato cantabile she won the prize for best actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. She then toured with François Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and Luis Buñuel (Diary of a waitress), among other directors.