Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on March 12 | Acts …

In March 12 anniversary These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out.

● 1919. Miguel Gila was born in Madrid. One of Spain’s greatest comedians, he fought on the Republican side during the Civil War and survived a shootout by faking his death: the platoon members were drunk and did not hit the shots. Then he was taken prisoner. After the war, he began his career in graphic media and radio, but decided to leave Spain in 1962. He settled in Buenos Aires and returned to democratic Spain. His humor was characterized by monologues disguised as telephone dialogues. He popularized a slogan: “Let him wear!” He died in Barcelona in 2001.

● 1927. Raúl Alfonsín was born in Chascomús. He was a councilor, provincial deputy and national deputy. He led Renovation and Change in the internal UCR and hegemonized the party after the death of Ricardo Balbín. He emerged as a new voice in the retreat from the dictatorship. He defeated Peronism in the 1983 elections and led the democratic transition. As soon as he assumed it, he was confronted with a human rights policy unprecedented in Latin America: he encouraged the creation of Conadep, canceled the military self-amnesty and decreed the continuation of the junta. military, which led to the historic 1985 trial. Laws of the End Point and Due Obedience. He signed peace with Chile on the Beagle question and laid the foundations for Mercosur. In his government, the Divorce Law was passed. Corrupted by a coup in the market and in the midst of hyperinflation, he advanced the handover of power to Carlos Menem. In 1993, he signed the Olivos Pact with Menem, by which the Constitution was reformed. He fostered the formation of the Alliance and was a dominant figure in radicalism and national politics until his death in 2009.

● 1930. One of the great stages of the struggle for the independence of India begins: the salt march. Mahatma Gandhi leads a 300-kilometer march to the sea in rejection of the salt monopoly by English colonialism, whose taxes punished the poorest sectors of India. Upon reaching the sea on April 6, Gandhi collects salt water in containers and separates the salt, in open disregard of the English ban. His gesture is imitated by the crowd that accompanies him.

● 1938. The connection, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. Hitler’s troops cross the border and Austria becomes one more province of the Third Reich, which seeks to unite all the Germanic peoples under one nation. The invasion comes hours after the Austrian authorities called a plebiscite for the people to decide their future. With the annexation, the referendum is deactivated. Behind the Anchsluss, the German dictator will launch the campaign of incorporation of the Sudetenland, the Czechoslovak region with the majority of the German population.

● 1999. In Berlin, one of the greatest virtuosos of the 20th century, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, died at the age of 82. Born in the United States, he was a child prodigy. He remained active then and until his death, with countless concerts and recordings.

● 2008. Jorge Guinzburg dies at the age of 59. Cancer takes the life of one of the media’s most prominent and respected men for its speed and clarity. It started in graphic design and on radio before coming to television with the success of The new rebels, in 1986. He later drove Nothing is worse, a humorous program with sketches and interviews, in duet with Horacio Fontova. Then did Three sad tigers and the cycle The Bible and the water heater. In his later years he revitalized the morning television program with Informal mornings.

In addition, it is National Shield Day.