Today’s Ephemeris: What Happened on November 8 | He …

In ephemeris of November 8 These events that happened on a day like today in Argentina and around the world stand out:

● 1847. In Clontarf, Ireland, Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. His 1897 novel would terrify not only countless readers, but also those who saw the film versions he provided. Stoker died in 1912.

● 1923. The brewery putsch is produced in Munich, the first major attempt to seize power by Nazism. Adolf Hitler organizes an attempted coup in Bavaria and rallies the forces of the right. Badly organized, the riot fails. The leaders are brought to justice. Hitler turns his defense into a political harangue and the judges give him a five-year prison sentence. However, he was granted amnesty. He was released from prison in December 1924, with the manuscript of My struggle under the arm.

● 1935. One of the myths of the seventh art was born: Alain Delon. The French actor has starred in countless classics, such as Rocco and his brothers Yes The leopardby Visconti; Adventurers, by Robert Enrico, with Lino Ventura; El samurai Yes The red circle, by Jean-Pierre Melville; Red sun, by Terence Young; y In broad daylightby René Clément, in which he plays Tom Ripley, the character created by Patricia Highsmith.

● 1960. Democratic Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy defeats Republican Vice President Richard Nixon and, at age 43, becomes the youngest president in US history. He is also the first Catholic to reach the White House. Kennedy wins by a slim margin: in an election in which 68.9 million people turned out to vote, he wins by 102,000 votes. The campaign included the first televised debate between candidates.

● 1971. Goes on sale Led Zeppelin IVby the British group Led Zeppelin. This is the album which contains the most famous song of the group: “Stairway to Heaven”.

● 2010. At 85, Emilio Eduardo Massera, one of the greatest symbols of the horror of dictatorship, dies. He became head of the navy in Perón’s third presidency and joined the military coup in 1976. In ESMA he created the most important and significant concentration camp of the dictatorship. He retired in 1978 and left the Council in view of his own political project. The crime of businessman Fernando Branca led to his arrest in 1983. At the end of that year he was indicted by Decree 158 of Raúl Alfonsín. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the historic councils trial in 1985. Carlos Menem pardoned him in 1990 and the baby theft case brought him to justice eight years later. His health problems prevented him from facing the procedure after the pardons were canceled.

● 2014. Aurora Bernárdez dies in Paris. He was 94 years old. She was a translator, one of the most important in the Spanish language. He owes him, among other things, the translations of Invisible cities, by Ítalo Calvino, and by The Alexandria Quartetby Lawrence Durrell. Half-sister of the poet Francisco Luis Bernárdez, she was the first wife of Julio Cortázar and, after the death of the author of Hopscotch, remained the heir of his work.

● 2019. After 580 days, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leaves Curitiba prison. The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that his imprisonment was illegal. The former president is no longer the most famous political prisoner in the world and promises to lead the opposition to Jair Bolsonaro.

In addition, it is World Urban Planning Day, declared by the United Nations; and in Argentina, it is the day of radiologists.