Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on May 9 | Facts that …

In May 9 ephemeris These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1904. Grete Stern was born in Elberfeld, Germany. She studied at the Bauhaus and started her career as a photographer and designer. In Europe, she met Argentinian photographer Horacio Coppola, whom she married. The couple moved to Buenos Aires. Stern would remain in Argentina after separating from Coppola. He devoted himself to photographing the original peoples of the province of Chaco. Vision problems led her to give up photography in 1985. She died at the age of 95 on December 24, 1999.

● 1949. Billy Joel was born in New York. Singer, songwriter and pianist, the single “Piano Man”, which gives the title to his second album, made him a star. His career has stretched since then and he is considered one of the greatest singer-songwriters in popular music. He has sold over 100 million records and won six Grammy Awards.

● 1976. In Stammheim prison in Stuttgart, Ulrike Meinhof is found hanged. She was 41 years old and had led an armed organization, the Red Army Fraction (RAF, in German), better known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, by herself and by Andreas Baader, the other leader of the group. Meinhof worked as a journalist while serving in the Communist Party. It happened to armed struggle, and with the RAF it devoted itself to robbing banks and carrying out attacks on businesses of North American capital. Baader and Meinhof were arrested during various operations in 1972. Two years later, she was sentenced to eight years in prison. The appearance of his hanged body raised the question of whether he had actually committed suicide. The controversy remains. On October 18, 1977, Baader and two other RAF members were found dead in their cells in the same prison and it is still debated whether there was a suicide pact or whether they were killed.

● 1978. In Rome, Aldo Moro is assassinated. The former Italian Prime Minister, who reigned between 1963 and 1968 and then between 1974 and 1976, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades on March 16. The leader of the Christian Democracy spends nearly two months in captivity, the entire country awaiting his fate. The kidnappers allowed him to write letters to Christian Democratic leaders, material that would later become the basis of The Moro case, Leonardo Sciascia’s book (the writer was an MP and was part of the commission that investigated the kidnapping and murder). The letters were a way of interceding for the freedom of the imprisoned brigades. However, there is no deal and Moro is murdered. His bullet-riddled body is found in a Renault 4. The culprits have never been found and a high-level plot to eliminate him is suspected.

● 1998. Birmingham Eurovision Song Contest. Israel wins with the song “Diva”, sung in Hebrew by Sharon Cohen, better known as Dana International. The novelty is that the competition is won, for the first time, by a transsexual artist. The artist was born in 1972 as a male and changed genders in the early 1990s. This is the third time Israel has won Eurovision, and Dana International’s triumph coincides with the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the Hebrew state. However, his victory is controversial. The ultra-Orthodox call her a “demon” and threaten her with death; in fact, Israeli television did not send a commentator to the contest. Nonetheless, the victory at Eurovision is hailed by hundreds of young people on the streets of Tel Aviv, who celebrate the top spot as an achievement for gay rights in the Middle East.

● 2020. One of the fathers of rock and roll dies: Little Richard. He was 87 years old and was born Richard Wayne Penniman. “Lucille”, “Long Tall Sally” and “Tutti Frutti” became rock classics in the mid-1950s. Praised and respected as one of the pioneers of the genre, he was also considered one of the first to break racial boundaries. in music when there was still segregationism in the United States.

In addition, it was Europe Day, for the Schuman Declaration, the speech of French Chancellor Robert Schuman which laid the foundations for the future European Union.