A day like today, but 100 years ago, René Favaloro was born

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1923 – RENE FAVALORO. The cardiologist, surgeon and teacher René Favaloro was born in the Buenos Aires city of La Plata. Since 2002, the National Day of Social Medicine has been celebrated in commemoration of his birth.

Favaloro is recognized worldwide for having developed the coronary bypass technique using the saphenous vein. He published more than 300 papers on medicine.

René Favaloro. One of the doctors whose life Tartaglione investigated. (The Voice / File)

René Favaloro was born in the city of La Plata on July 12, 1923 and studied medicine at the University of the Buenos Aires capital. After his graduation, Favaloro was a rural doctor in the Pampas town of Jacinto Arauz, where he carried out a very important task of prevention and dissemination that led to a drastic reduction in infant mortality in the area of ​​influence.

In the 1960s, he left for the United States to train as a thoracic surgeon with the team at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which he chose based on their excellence and academic references. On May 9, 1967, at the Cleveland Clinic, Favaloro performed the first operation on a 51-year-old woman with his new bypass technique, which revolutionized cardiology worldwide.

First. René Favaloro, in pioneering surgery on May 9, 1967.

His prestige and significance was such that, in 1992, The New York Times considered him a “world hero who changed part of modern medicine.”

Returning to his native Argentina, he created the Favaloro Foundation in 1975, a training center for doctors from different parts of the world, as well as the Basic Research Laboratory, dependent on the Foundation’s Research and Teaching Department, later converted into the Research Institute in Basic Sciences from the University Institute of Biomedical Sciences.

He was also the creator of the Favaloro University and the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery.

Other ephemeris

1780 – JUANA AZURDUY. The heroine Juana Azurduy de Padilla was born in the commune of Toroca (Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, present-day Bolivia), who fought in the war of independence of Upper Peru with the rank of lieutenant colonel. She is honored in both Argentina and Bolivia.

Juana Azurduy de Padilla.

1852 – HIPOLITO YRIGOYEN. Former President Hipólito Yrigoyen, one of the founders of the Radical Civic Union, was born in Buenos Aires. He was the first president elected by secret and compulsory male vote established by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912. He ruled between 1916 and 1922 and between 1928 and 1930, when he was overthrown by a military coup led by General José Félix Uriburu.

Hipólito Yrigoyen.

1904 – PABLO NERUDA. The writer and politician Pablo Neruda (Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto), one of the most important poets of the 20th century, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in the Chilean city of Parral.

The Chilean writer and Nobel Prize for Literature Pablo Neruda in his house in Isla Negra. (Sara Facio / The Voice / File)

1909 – JOE DERITA. American actor and comedian Joe Derita (Joseph Wardell), famous for his role as Curly in the comedy group The Three Stooges, very popular on television in the 1960s, was born in the city of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA). and ’70.

1930 – TRAM 105. Full of workers, tram No. 75 of Line 105, which covered the route from the Buenos Aires town of Temperley to the Plaza Constitución in Buenos Aires, falls into the Riachuelo from the Bosch Bridge, whose central section remained raised , an accident in which 56 of the 60 passengers died.

The vehicle fell into the water from a drawbridge section of the Bosch Bridge. (Faces and Masks File)

1962 – JULY C. CHAVEZ. Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez, considered the best in his country and winner of world titles in the super featherweight, lightweight and super lightweight categories, was born in Ciudad Obregón (Sonora, Mexico). He went undefeated for almost 14 years.

Julio Cesar Chavez.

1962 – ROLLING STONES. British rock band The Rolling Stones, made up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Bill Chapman, Brian Jones and Ian Stewart, perform for the first time in public at London’s Marquee Club. Jones gave the band its name after hearing the song “Rollin Stone” by American blues musician Muddy Waters.

2009 – FEAT OF THE WOLF. With the loss of two players due to expulsion, Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata managed to remain in the First Division by beating Atlético Rafaela 3-0 on the hour, who had won the first leg of the 2009 Promotion by the same score.

More ephemeris

1537.- Battle of Abancay, in Peru. Diego Almagro’s forces defeat Francisco Pizarro’s. A civil war begins between the conquerors of Peru.

1806.- Napoleon creates the Confederation of the Rhine, accepted by the German princes.

1839.- The Constituent Congress of Bolivia approves that the city of Chuquisaca, capital of the Republic, change its name to Sucre, in homage to the liberator Antonio José de Sucre.

1856.- The American filibuster William Walker takes office as president of Nicaragua after fraudulent elections.

1878.- English troops occupy Cyprus, by ceding Turkey.

1892.- At least 175 deaths in the Alps, when an avalanche of water and mud from the Tête Rousse glacier devastates the town of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, in Savoy (France), near Chamonix.

1906.- The French Supreme Court annuls the court martial that sentenced Alfred Dreyfus and 9 days later reinstates him to the Army.

1914.- Attempted assassination of Rasputin, a Russian adventurer of great influence in the tsarist court, in Pokrovskoye (Dagestan).

1917.- World War I: Germany uses mustard gas projectiles for the first time days before the third battle of Ypres (Belgium), which gives its name to the chemical agent yperite.

1919.- The Allied Supreme Council lifts the maritime blockade of Germany.

1920.- Bolivian President José Gutiérrez Guerra is overthrown in a coup d’état. He is succeeded by a Governing Board headed by Bautista Saavedra Mallea.

.- The official inauguration of the Panama Canal takes place, after the one carried out in 1914 with the passage of the steamer “Ancón”.

1924.- Horacio Vásquez takes office as president of the Dominican Republic after winning the March elections. US troops, installed since 1916, are withdrawn.

1941.- Great Britain and the USSR sign a mutual aid and full support pact against Nazi Germany.

1943.- The National Committee of Free Germany is constituted in Moscow, made up of Germans to demoralize German troops with radio propaganda.

1947.- The European Economic Cooperation Conference in Paris begins to specify the Marshall Plan for US aid for the reconstruction of Europe.

1962.- First public concert of “The Rolling Stones”, in London.

1979.- The Peruvian Constituent Assembly approves the new Constitution, which came into force just one year later.

1990.- Violeta Chamorro and the Sandinistas reach an agreement that ends the 15-day general strike followed by state employees and in which 6 people die.

1991.- Mauritania ratifies the country’s first Constitution in a referendum.

.- The Bulgarian Assembly approves the first non-communist Constitution, which converts the country into a parliamentary republic.

1993.- An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 causes 201 deaths and 38 missing on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

1996.- The divorce agreement of the princes of Wales, Carlos and Diana, is announced after 15 years of marriage.

1998.- France is proclaimed soccer world champion by beating Brazil (3-0) in Paris.

1999.- The World Trade Organization (WTO) authorizes the US and Canada to sanction the European Union with 124 million euros per year for refusing to import beef treated with hormones.

2004.- Pedro Santana Lopes is appointed Portuguese Prime Minister, succeeding José Manuel Durao Barroso who will preside over the European Commission.

2005.- Alberto Grimaldi is enthroned as Prince Albert II of Monaco.

2010.- The first political prisoners of the “Group of 75” leave Havana for Madrid.

2017.- Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva is sentenced to 9 years in prison for corruption and money laundering. He then raised to 12 years and 1 month.

2013.- The Irish Parliament approves its first abortion law for cases of danger to the life of the mother, until then it was allowed by a 1992 ruling.

2021.- Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, becomes the first person to travel into space in his own ship.

BIRTHS

1854.- George Eastman, inventor of the photographic film roll and founder of Eastman Kodak.

1876.- Max Jacob, French writer.

1884.- Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter.

1937.- Bill Cosby, American actor.

1947.- “Mari Trini” Pérez, Spanish singer.

1967.- Luis Abinader Corona, Dominican politician.

1991.- James Rodríguez, Colombian soccer player.

1997.- Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist in defense of female education.

2000.- Vinicius Junior, Brazilian soccer player.

DEATHS

1536.- Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch humanist.

1880.- Isaac Rodrigue Pereire, French banker.

1988.- Joshua Logan, American musical and theater director.

2002.- Edward Lee Howard, the only CIA agent to go to the USSR.

2003.- Benny Carter, American saxophonist.

2010.- Olga Guillot, Cuban singer.

Source: own and agencies.