Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on January 15th | Made …

In January 15 ephemeris These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out.

● 1919. Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are assassinated in Berlin. Two weeks earlier, they had founded the German Communist Party with other leftist leaders. The revolutionary climate led to the repression of the self-defense forces. The repression reached the two intellectuals: Liebknecht was shot in the neck and was buried in a mass grave. Luxembourg is shot before being hit in the head. His body is thrown into a canal.

● 1944. Devastating 7.4 earthquake leaves the city of San Juan in ruins. More than 10,000 people die in the biggest natural disaster in Argentina’s history. A stage of reconstruction begins which will take years in the city of Cuyo. As part of the state’s action, a charity festival is held at Luna Park, where Juan Domingo Perón and Eva Duarte will meet.

● 1952. Eduardo Federico Beilinson was born in La Plata, emblematic member of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota. Skay Beilinson formed the group with Indio Solari in the late 1970s and they consolidated into the 1980s scene with albums such as Sip! and October. After the Rounds split in 2001, Beilinson assembled Skay and the Fakires.

● 1958. Luis Pescetti was born in San Jorge, in the province of Santa Fe. Musician and writer, his work is mainly aimed at children. The citizen of my shoes Prince Casa de las Américas won it in 1997. Two years later it appeared Natacha, a children’s novel that began a saga that already has nine titles. In his discography, they stand out, among other titles, Bocasucia, Useless to insist and He started the first.

● 1959. The taking of the Frigo Lisandro de la Torre begins, in rejection of the idea of ​​privatizing it by the government Arturo Frondizi. The workers launch a strike, led by Sebastián Borro, which represents the biggest reaction of the workers since the fall of Juan Domingo Perón. An occupation begins which is repressed by two thousand police officers in full general strike. After the force measure was lifted, some five thousand workers were made redundant. The company was sold to the Argentine Corporation of Meat Producers.

● 1988. At 83, Irish politician Seán MacBride dies. He was his country’s foreign minister between 1948 and 1951 and for his diplomatic work he shared the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize with Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato. However, the most remembered contribution was still missing: the communication report that bears his name, commissioned by UNESCO and published in 1980. The MacBride report made proposals for a new world order of communication and information (Nomic ) to resolve asymmetries caused by the power of communication companies in central countries to the detriment of peripheral countries, unable to counter its effects. The rejection of the report by the United States was so great that, in 1983, they announced their departure from Unesco.

● 2009. An Airbus 320 takes off from LaGuardia Airport, New York, bound for Charlotte. In a few minutes, a flock of geese crosses and damages the engines. Without propulsion, pilot Chesley Sullenberger decides to return to LaGuardia. However, the Airbus is losing height and there is no way to get back. So Sullenberger opts for a dip in the Hudson River. The image of the airplane on the water goes around the world. The splashdown is the most successful in the history of aviation: the 150 passengers and the 5 crew members leave with a few injured, but no one dies from the impact with the water. The story was reconstructed in 2016 by Clint Eastwood in his film Defile.