Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on November 29 | …

In ephemeris of November 29 These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1924. Giacomo Puccini, the most important opera composer in Italy after Verdi, dies in Brussels. It broke out as part of the verista school, which put realism on the scene. Bohemian, Tosca Yes Madame Butterfly were the main works of the musician born in 1858. His last opera, unfinished by his death and released posthumously, is Turandot.

● 1946. Birth of Juan Alberto Badía. The announcer and host was one of the media’s most beloved personalities. He started on radio in the 1970s, accompanied by Graciela Mancuso. It became massive in the 1980s, after the return of democracy, with Badía and company, a cycle put online on Saturday, with musical numbers. Also driven Picture radio. He was active on radio and television until his death in 2012.

● 1946. Silvio Rodríguez was born in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. One of Spain’s greatest singer-songwriters, he was part of the Nueva Trova that emerged on the island with artists such as Vicente Feliú and Pablo Milanés. In his production, the records stand out Women, Unicorn, Triptych and the trilogy formed by Silvio, Rodriguez Yes Dominguez.

● 1969. Almendra’s debut album goes on sale. Titled with the name of the group, it is considered one of the most relevant albums of Argentine rock in all of its history. The group led by Luis Alberto Spinetta, Emilio Del Guercio, Edelmiro Molinari and Rodolfo García had already released several singles and the version of “Tema de Pototo” that Leonardo Favio recorded as “To know how loneliness is” cemented their fame. Album Almond it opens with a mythical theme: “Girl (paper eyes)”.

● 1984. In the Vatican, Foreign Ministers Dante Caputo, Argentina, and Jaime Del Valle, Chile, sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship that ends the border dispute over the Beagle Channel. A quarter of a century later, in 2009, Presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Michelle Bachelet met with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome to commemorate the 25 years since the signing of this document.

● 1986. Cary Grant, one of the great actors of classic Hollywood, dies at the age of 82. He was born in Bristol in 1904, as Archibald Leach. He has appeared in countless classics: Something to remember, Charade, Notorius, To catch the thief e International intrigue, among others. He retired in 1966 and received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement four years later.

● 2001. A tumor kills George Harrison. The former beatle was 58 and died in Los Angeles. He was the guitarist of the greatest group in the history of popular music from his birth until the breakup of 1970. After the dissolution of the Beatles, he surprised with his album Everything must pass, the first triple album to be released. A year later, he conducted the legendary Concert for Bangladesh in New York City, the first star-hosted charity show. Harrison became a fan of Indian music during his beatle era and helped incorporate the sound of the Orient into rock.

● 2007. Juan Gelman receives the Cervantes Prize, the highest Spanish literary distinction. The 77-year-old poet is the fourth Argentine to receive him, after Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato and Adolfo Bioy Casares. His work began with the publication of Violin and other problems, in 1956, and titles such as Gothan, Beef cholera, Announcements, Worth it, Country that was will be Yes Mundar. Between the two, he suffered the exile and disappearance of his son and his pregnant daughter-in-law: he was able to reconnect with his granddaughter in 2000. He received the prize on April 23 (anniversary of the death of Cervantes), 2008, in Alcalá de Henares, by King Juan Carlos of Spain.

● 2009. José Mujica wins the ballot over former president Luis Lacalle and becomes the new president of Uruguay. He thus succeeds the first government of the Frente Amplio, led by Tabaré Vázquez. Mujica was 74 at the time, he was a member of Tupamaros and was imprisoned by the Uruguayan military dictatorship between 1973 and 1985.

● 2011. Political scientist Guillermo O’Donnell dies at the age of 75. He studied and worked at Yale University, where he published Modernization and bureaucratic authoritarianism in 1973. For his contributions, the date of his death is commemorated as the National Day of Political Scientists.

In addition, it is the International Day of Women Human Rights Defenders, through which the United Nations recognizes the value of women in humanitarian action.