Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on April 26 | Made…

In April 26th anniversary These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out.

● 1937. Nazi planes from the Condor Legion bombard the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It is estimated that there are up to 300 deaths in an event that causes repudiation around the world. Guernica, considered a symbol of Basque nationalism, was not a military target. The bombing of the civilian population is a glimpse of what London will experience since 1940. The airmen are Adolf Hitler’s support for Francisco Franco in his crusade against the Second Republic. The fact inspires the mural Guernicaby Pablo Picasso.

● 1949. Birth of Carlos Bianchi, idol of Vélez and the most successful trainer in the history of Boca. With the Liniers team, he was champion in 1968, before going to France. He returned as a player in the 80s. As a coach he was champion with Fortin in 1993 and the following year he bred the Libertadores and the Intercontinental. He added a new local title in 1995. He went to Rome, it didn’t go well and he got to Boca. He was an undefeated champion and since 2000 he has dominated international tournaments, with three Libertadores and two Intercontinentals, as well as national titles. He made a stint at Atlético de Madrid and a last cycle in Boca, far from these brilliant results.

● 1984. Count Basie dies at 79. Born William Basie in South Carolina, he was one of the most popular musicians in jazz history. From his piano, he led a big band of reference. He has performed and recorded with artists such as Oscar Peterson, Dizzie Gillespie and Frank Sinatra.

● 1986. Nuclear disaster in the USSR. The Chernobyl reactor explodes in Ukraine near the border with Belarus. Officially, 31 people have died, but the radiation has spread over thousands of square kilometers. Soviet authorities did not immediately report what had happened. The high levels of radiation detected by the Scandinavian countries alerted the West that something unheard of had happened on the other side of the Baltic Sea. Mikhail Gorbachev’s government evacuated more than 100,000 people from the city of Pripyat, while thirteen European countries activated their alarms due to the possible arrival of wind radiation. It is estimated that the energy released was 500 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. Some 600,000 people were mobilized to decontaminate the area. The reactor was under a large concrete sarcophagus to contain the radiation.

● 2005. Augusto Roa Bastos dies at the age of 87. Born in 1917, the Paraguayan writer spent several decades in exile before being able to return to his country in 1989, after the fall of Alfredo Stroessner. That year he won the Cervantes Prize. In his story, the novels stand out The son of the man, Tax and especially, Me the supreme, in which he gave the floor to the esoteric José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the first and all-powerful president of independent Paraguay, who reigned with the title of perpetual dictator between 1814 and his death in 1840. Roa Bastos also left a short important work history, with titles like Thunder between the leaves Yes Land of waste.

It is also Lesbian Awareness Day; and World Intellectual Property Day.