The ephemeris of the day: what happened on June 14 | Facts…

In June 14 anniversary These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1928. Ernesto Guevara was born in Rosario, although it is reported that his birth could have been a month earlier and he wrote it down in June to cover up that his mother Celia was already pregnant at the time of the wedding. Che grew up in Alta Gracia, Cordoba, where the climate was conducive to relieving his asthma. He played rugby and studied medicine. He is touring Latin America with his friend Alberto Granado. In 1953, he undertook a second trip with Carlos “Calica” Ferrer, which led him to political action. He witnessed the coup d’état in Guatemala and met Fidel Castro. He accompanies the expedition of Granny and was a key figure in the victory against Fulgencio Batista. After the triumph of the Revolution, he was Minister of Industry and President of the National Bank of Cuba. Contrary to a dependency of the USSR, he went to the Congo, where he failed in the campaign with Laurent Kabila. He later went to the Bolivian jungle, where he was captured and executed by that country’s army in October 1967. His remains were buried in Valle Grande, found in 1997 and taken to Cuba.

● 1940. Hitler’s troops enter Paris. France capitulates and four years of German occupation begin. It was the moment of Germany’s greatest success in WWII, with the fall of France and the English retreat to Dunkirk. Nazism establishes a puppet government in Vichy, which will promote the deportations of Jews. The second front opened by the Allies on D-Day will allow the liberation of France in August 1944.

● 1946. Donald Trump was born in New York. The billionaire is one of the most powerful men in real estate and has become popular as a man in the media and with reality TV The beginner. From business and entertainment he switched to politics. After years of threatening his candidacy, he ran in the 2016 presidential election. He swept aside his rivals in the Republican Internal and defeated Hillary Clinton. He came to the White House with a right-wing populist speech. His campaign was based on the construction of a border wall with Mexico. Trump’s years in power saw a resurgence of white supremacism, as evidenced by the events in Charlottesville, which the president did not firmly repudiate; plus the racially motivated violence that George Floyd’s crime generated. He embarked on a trade war with China, applied strong protectionism, abandoned the nuclear deal with Iran and froze relations with Cuba, the latter two legacies of Barack Obama. It also prompted the United States to leave the Paris Agreement on climate change. For the Russian plot he went to impeachment. The Senate acquitted him and came out strengthened for his re-election, but the coronavirus arrived. The terrible handling of the pandemic (it minimized its impact with thousands of deaths and on top of that she was infected) worked in favor of Joe Biden, who beat him in November 2020. Trump did not admit victory Democrat and triggered the capture of the Capitol on Jan.6, 2021, when Biden was certified president-elect. Due to this unprecedented event, which took place two weeks before leaving the presidency, he faced a second impeachment, of which he was also acquitted, a few days after leaving the government. He made history for facing two political trials in one term. The most embarrassing presidency in American history ended on January 20, 2021, and Trump did not even attend the handover ceremony. Today, he is prohibited from accessing social networks because of the virulence of his speech.

● 1952. Lalo Mir was born in San Pedro. One of the distinctive voices of Argentine radio, he achieved popularity with Radio Bangkok, Rock & Pop cycle aired between 1987 and 1989. His career continues to this day, with cycles on various stations, and he has also ventured into television.

● 1956. Juan Carlos Baglietto was born in Rosario. Exhibitor of the rosarina trova, he was part of several groups before launching his solo career in 1981. He recorded the album Time difficult, which was a success and became one of the emblematic artists of the democratic spring. Since then he has been active, with an extensive discography.

● 1982. The Military Governor of the Falkland Islands, Mario Benjamín Menéndez, surrenders to English General Jeremy Moore. Thus ends the conflict in the South Atlantic, the first and only war Argentina faced in the twentieth century. 74 days earlier, on April 2, Argentine troops had landed in the archipelago occupied by Great Britain since 1833. Menéndez had surrendered before the siege of Puerto Argentino and after the battles of Mount Longdon and Mount Tumbledown. The war ends with 649 dead on the Argentine side. The British suffer 255 victims. The defeat precipitates the fall of the dictator Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri. The de facto government, in full decomposition, begins its exit with a view to free elections.

● 1985. President Raúl Alfonsín and his Minister of the Economy, Juan Vital Sourrouille, announce the launch of the Austral Plan. This is an aggressive shock program to stabilize the economy and slow the growth of inflation. There is a change of currency sign: the new currency, which replaces the Argentine peso, is the austral. Prices, wages and fees are frozen. The program is agreed with the IMF and has heterodox aspects. The first months were successful, with a significant drop in inflation, which allowed the UCR to win the legislative elections of November 1985.

● 1986. Jorge Luis Borges died in Geneva, the city of his youth, at the age of 86. He had left Argentina at the end of the previous year to settle in the Swiss city where he lived and studied during the years of the First World War. The greatest Argentinian writer of the 20th century is buried in the city of French-speaking Switzerland. Two months earlier, he had married his secretary, María Kodama, whom he named his universal heiress in a new will. Borges’ central work consists of the tales of Fiction Yes 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 such as Fervor of Buenos Aires, Tiger gold, The number Yes The conspirators. He co-wrote with Adolfo Bioy Casares books such as Six problems for Don Isidro Parodi Yes 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 won the Cervantes Prize in 1979.

● 1988. At the age of 56, Sara Gallardo passed away. The writer comes from a prosapia family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Bartolomé Miter, great-granddaughter of Miguel Cané and granddaughter of Ángel Gallardo. In 1958 appeared his first novel, January, which was followed Blue pants, in 1963. Later will come his most famous novels: Greyhounds, Greyhounds, in 1968; Yes Eisejuaz, in 1971. He also published the volumes of news The land of smoke Yes The rose in the wind, in addition to venturing into children’s literature. His columns in the magazine Confirmed they met in Macaneos; the rest of his journalistic work has been published in Trades.