Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on March 8 | Acts …

In March 8 anniversary These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out.

● 1910. At the 2nd International Conference of Socialist Women, held in Copenhagen, the demand for free suffrage for women is reiterated and German leader Clara Zetkin proposes March 8 as International Women’s Day. The proposal was accepted unanimously. The same year, the International Women’s Congress was held in Buenos Aires. Decades later, the UN institutionalized the March 8 date.

● 1941. Ramón Bautista Ortega was born in Lules, province of Tucumán. He arrived in Buenos Aires in the 1950s and began his musical career. Palito Ortega jumped with The Clan Club, a highly regarded television show that cemented its fame. Records and films made him a very popular figure, including the televised wedding. In the 1970s, he made films and was marked by films that were very accommodating to the armed forces during the dictatorship. He suffered a financial crisis by bringing in Frank Sinatra. Later he was governor of Tucumán and senator of his province. He accompanied Eduardo Duhalde as a running mate in 1999 and got involved in a corruption case in the Senate. Far from the public service, he returned to devote himself to music.

● 1971. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier meet for the first time, at the start of one of the greatest duels in the history of boxing and sport in general. The so-called “fight of the century” ends with Frazier’s points victory, which spelled the end of Ali’s unbeaten record. They would fight two more times, with Ali wins, the last with the title on the line in Manila. The 1971 fight received special magazine coverage Life, with a column by Norman Mailer and photos by Frank Sinatra.

● 1999. Adolfo Bioy Casares dies at the age of 84. Friend of Jorge Luis Borges, he created with him the writer H. Bustos Domecq and, with this common pseudonym, they published Six problems for Don Isidro Parodi in 1942. It was the first of several collaborative works. Two years earlier he had started his literary career with Morel’s invention. Other titles: Evacuation plan, The dream of heroes, Pig’s War Diary Yes Sleep in the sun. Married to Silvina Ocampo, with her and Borges he prepared the Anthology of fantastic literature. With Borges, he also directed the collection of the detective novel El Séptimo Círculo. Cervantes Prize in 1990, his private papers were collected in On the road (1967), 1996 and after his death in Walkers are resting Yes Borges.

● 2015. Gerardo Sofovich dies at the age of 77. The producer and host was a Menem official and worshiped machismo and misogyny in his programming. In his youth he collaborated with his brother Hugo in programs and films starring the duo formed by Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel in a stellar way.

● 2016. George Martin dies at the age of 90. He was the producer of The Beatles and responsible for the final sound of the Liverpool quartet. For this reason, he was known as the “fifth beatle”. His career spanned over six decades and he is considered one of the greatest record producers in history.

● 2017. The first global women’s strike takes place. The general strike, to which Argentina adheres, coincides with International Women’s Day and is being carried out in more than fifty countries in order to make gender-based violence visible. A year later, a second strike was called. It was also produced in 2019 and 2020.

It is also International Women’s Day.