Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on March 20 | Acts …

In 20th March anniversary These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1957. One of Hollywood’s most important directors of decades was born: Spike Lee. Perhaps the quintessential African-American filmmaker, much of his work revolves around racism, as in do good and the biopic Malcolm X. His work includes films such as Sam’s summer, The 25th hour, The KKKlan infiltrator (for which he won an Oscar as a screenwriter; he had already received another for his career) and 5 bloods.

● 1969. John Lennon and Yoko Ono get married in Gibraltar. Then, they begin an unusual honeymoon: they spend a week in bed in Amsterdam and another in Montreal, to claim peace in the world. The adventures of those days are captured in one of the Beatles’ latest singles: “The Ballad of John and Yoko”.

● 1988. Pianist, composer and arranger Gil Evans dies at the age of 75. He was a key piece in the evolution of jazz, as well as a permanent collaborator of Miles Davis, whom he accompanied on records such as Spain sketch Yes Porgy & Bess.

● 1995. Attack on the Tokyo metro. A sect called Supreme Truth releases sarin gas at various stations and thirteen people are killed. There are fifty injured and around a thousand people have temporary vision problems. The chemical weapons attack led to the arrest of members of the Verdad Suprema, who had already committed a similar act. An episode of this gravity had not occurred in the country since the end of the Second World War. Haruki Murakami published the book Underground, in 1997, which includes interviews with survivors of the attack; and after, The promised place, centered on the supreme truth. In 2018, the cult leader, Shōkō Asahara, along with six other people, were executed by hanging.

● 2016. Barack Obama becomes the first American president to visit Cuba since the triumph of the Revolution. There has been no US president on the island since 1928. The historic trip is the culmination of detente between the two countries since the agreement announced in late 2014, when Washington and Havana expressed their intention to normalize relationships. Obama visits the Cuban capital and meets Raúl Castro, before traveling to Argentina.

In addition, it is the International Day of Happiness, established by the United Nations, “to recognize the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal aspirations of human beings and the importance of their inclusion in government policies. “.