Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on June 1 | Facts…

In June 1st anniversary These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1903. María Esther Traverso was born in Buenos Aires. The youngest daughter of an Asturian immigrant marriage will dedicate herself to comedy under the name of Niní Marshall. His career began in radio, where the characters of Cándida and Catita appeared. He shot movies like Niní must be educated, Divorce in Montevideo, Wedding in Buenos Aires, Honeymoon in Rio, Carmen Yes Dead fly. After the military coup of 1943, he went into exile in Mexico. He returned to the country after the fall of Perón. He acted on television and put on the theatrical show And … we redeemed. He retired in the early 1980s, considered a mythical actor figure. He died in 1996.

● 1937. Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis. His acting career began on television, until he went to the movies. For Driving Miss Daisy has become a renowned actor. He was with Kevin Costner in Robin Hood and played Dream of freedom, on a short novel by Stephen King. He collaborated with Clint Eastwood on The unforgivable, at Million dollar baby (for which he won the Oscar as a supporting actor) and in Invictus, in which he personified Nelson Mandela. He was also seen in the trilogy of Batman Directed by Christopher Nolan and was the voice of the documentary Penguins walk. In recent times, he has faced complaints of sexual harassment.

● 1967. The Beatles’ eighth album released: Sargent Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Focusing on studio work, after leaving touring, the Liverpool band produced a landmark album: a fictional rock band, which gave the album its name, stars in the songs. The material is the climax of the psychedelic period of The Beatles, with baroque orchestrations by George Martin. Its cover has become one of the most imitated in the history of popular music. It was also the first rock album to feature printed song lyrics. It took about 700 hours of recording to produce the album that sums up the 1960s. Sgt. Peppers… It was from Paul McCartney. The album’s closing showed the fusion of an incomplete song of his own with another equally unfinished John Lennon, to generate one of The Beatles’ creative peaks: “A Day In The Life”.

● 1977. A group of tasks of the dictatorship entered the National School of Technical Education No. 25 “First Lieutenant of Artillery Fray Luis Beltrán”, in the district of Balvanera, and took a tutor. It is the poet Roberto Jorge Santoro, 38, missing since. Member of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party, his poetic work began in 1962 with Desperate profession. They followed, among other books, Stones with my country, At ground level, Challenge, Four songs and a flight Yes Things are clear. He also compiled the volume Bullet literature, the first anthology of football texts to be published in the country.

● 1978. Dictator Jorge Rafael Videla leads the inauguration of the FIFA World Cup at River Stadium. The first and only World Cup in history under siege opens with the 0-0 between defending champion West Germany and Poland. The tournament takes place at the height of state terrorism: just ten blocks from the Monumental, ESMA is the dictatorship’s largest underground detention center.

● 2018. Mariano Rajoy is dismissed from his post as president of the Spanish government by a vote of no confidence which pushes the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez. This is the first time that such an initiative has triumphed in Spanish democracy. The conservative leader was left in the ropes by the court ruling in the Gürtel case, which exposed the network of corruption within the People’s Party. Sánchez promotes the motion of censure and adds nationalist groups to his cause. Out of 176 votes necessary to obtain the dismissal of Rajoy, 180 are obtained, six and a half years of right-wing government coming to an end. Sánchez, as the promoter of the motion, takes office as the new president, while Rajoy leaves politics.

It is also World Mother and Father’s Day and World Milk Day.