Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on November 3 | Hey …

In ephemeris of November 3 These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1903. The separation of Panama is consummated, which ceases to be a province of Colombia. The new country was born after the Thousand Day War, the Colombian civil conflict that lasted from 1899 to 1902. After the separation, work began to build the Interoceanic Canal, managed by the United States, which recognized the news. Republic. November 13, 1903.

● 1930. The Getúlio Vargas era in Brazil begins. The military put him as head of government after he ousted Washington Luis Pereira de Sousa on October 24. Vargas will govern until October 1945. The first four years at the head of a provisional government; the next three as constitutional president; then, since 1937, as dictator, after the establishment of the Estado Novo, an authoritarian and corporate regime. Deposed in 1945, he will return to govern Brazil thanks to polls in 1951 until his suicide in 1954.

● 1933. Birth of John Barry, one of the great authors of film music. The English composer, who died in 2011, left classics like My africa Yes Dancing with the wolves, for which he received two Oscars, and also the leitmotif of James Bond.

● 1970. Salvador Allende assumes the presidency of Chile. The 62-year-old doctor beat right-wing candidate Jorge Alessandri and Radomiro Tomic, Christian Democrats, at the polls. The government of popular unity and the project of the Chilean road to socialism have started. Allende left his life at the Palacio de la Moneda on September 11, 1973, when the seat of government was bombed by the military coup.

● 1985. Radicalism prevails in legislative elections, with 43% of the vote. The UCR manages to win even in the northern provinces, and Raúl Alfonsín’s project is consolidated by increasing its majority in the Chamber of Deputies. In the province of Buenos Aires, the ballot led by Leopoldo Moreau wins. The note of the day is given by the Peronist scission of Antonio Cafiero. Its renewal front is second in Argentina’s largest province, well ahead of the official PJ poll of Herminio Iglesias, who finished in fourth place, behind the Intransigent Party.

● 1992. Armando Tejada Gómez dies at the age of 63. The Mendoza poet played a key role in reviving folklore with the New Songbook, which had its manifesto in Mendoza in 1963 and featured the voice of Mercedes Sosa. He had just been a UCRI provincial deputy and, disillusioned with Frondizi, he joined the Communist Party. He put lyrics to César Isella classics, such as “Song with everyone” and “Song of simple things”. Among his books stands out Anthology of John, which includes the famous poem “There is a child in the street”.

● 1995. In the Cordoba city of Río Tercero, the military factory is in operation. The detonations left seven dead, hundreds injured and extensive material damage. President Carlos Menem comes out to say it’s an accident. Justice will prove the intentional nature of the incident and that the motive was to hide the lack of weapons that had been smuggled into Croatia and Ecuador, respectively at war with Serbia and Peru. Four soldiers were sentenced in 2014 to terms of between 13 and 10 years.

● 1997. Composer Pompey Camps dies. He was born in Entre Ríos in 1924. In addition to being a musician, he was an essayist and teacher. Among other works, he composed the song cycle From door to door, on poems by Javier Vilafañe; Blues for a dead girl (dedicated to Marylin Monroe from a poem by César Pelazza); Percussion dances and the Concerto for quartet and orchestra. In addition, he wrote a History of music in Argentina.

● 2010. “El Pulpo” Rubén Basoalto, drummer of Vox Dei, dies. He was 62 and was part of one of the great Argentinian rock groups with Ricardo Soulé and Willy Quiroga.

● 2011. At the age of 82, Justo Laguna died. Bishop of Morón since 1980, he became emeritus in 2004, when he was 75 years old and sent his resignation to Rome, in accordance with canon law. Two months before his death, he became the first Argentine prelate to be tried in a house for human rights. Justice ruled that he lied about the death of Bishop Carlos Ponce de León, Bishop of San Nicolás, who died in 1977 in an alleged car accident.