Today La Voz del Interior turns 120 years old

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1904 – THE VOICE FROM THE INTERIOR. 120 years ago, La Voz del Interior was born, with the imprint and business vision of Silvestre Rafael Remonda and the journalistic talent of Juan Dionisio Naso.

Both gave impetus to a booklet of just six pages that they published for the first time on March 15, 1904 and that would mark an extensive tradition of quality journalism in “la Docta” and throughout the country.

The voice of the interior first issue March 15, 1904 page 2 710395

More anniversaries

1913 – ALL BOYS. Eleven soccer-loving friends founded the All Boys Athletic Club in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Floresta “to have a place to play.” It is the club where striker Carlos Tévez, captain and idol of Boca Juniors, was trained.

1924 – J. IGNACIO RUCCI. Trade unionist José Ignacio Rucci, former general secretary of the Metallurgical Workers Union, who in 1970 was appointed head of the General Confederation of Labor, was born in the Santa Fe town of Alcorta.

Jose Ignatius Rucci. (Archive)

1959 – RICARDO SOULÉ. The musician and composer Ricardo Soulé, guitarist and vocalist of Vox Dei, one of the most emblematic bands of national rock, was born in Buenos Aires.

RIcardo Soulé in the trailer for “Peregrino”, a documentary focused on his life (YouTube Capture).

1964 – HUGO GATTI. In a friendly with Peñarol organized by River Plate to pay that Montevideo club for the transfer of Uruguayan defender Roberto Matosas, goalkeeper Hugo Orlando Gatti, who had arrived from Atlanta, made his debut on the “millionaire” team. It was a 1-1 draw at the Monumental stadium. “Loco” Gatti would later become an idol of Boca Juniors.

Hugo Orlando Gatti.

1963 – BRET MICHAELS. American musician and composer Bret Michaels (Bret Michael Sychak), vocalist of the glam rock band Poison, with which he sold more than 40 million records, was born in the state of Pennsylvania (USA).

Bret Michaels

1962 – MAFALDA CARTOON. The cartoonist Joaquín Lavado, better known by his pseudonym Quino, designed the first strips of the cartoon of the girl Mafalda commissioned by an advertising agency to promote the Manfield line of household appliances. In 1964, the Buenos Aires magazine Primera Plana began publishing the comic strip that would gain popularity in Latin America and Spain.

Joaquin Salvador Lavado, known as Quino, along with Mafalda. (Archive)

1971 – THE BIBLE. The rock band Vox Dei releases La Bible, their second studio album, considered a milestone of Hispanic rock and one of the first rock operas in the Spanish language.

1972 – THE GODFATHER. The film The Godfather, based on the novel by Mario Puzzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, a cult classic of cinema about the Mafia that had two sequels, premieres in New York (USA). It won the Oscar for best picture and best screenplay, while Brando received the Hollywood award for best actor.

The Godfather.

1995 – CARLOS MENEM JR. At the age of 25, motorist Carlos Saúl Facundo Menem, son of former president Carlos Saúl Menem, died when the helicopter he was piloting fell in a field around the Buenos Aires city of Ramallo, an accident that also cost the life of his colleague and friend Silvio Oltra.

CARLOS MENEM JR. Together with his father, Carlos Menem, in an image from 1994 (Reuters / Archive).

2024 – CONSUMER RIGHTS. Since 1985, World Consumer Rights Day has been celebrated, established by the United Nations to protect consumers of goods and services around the world.

World Consumer Rights Day

Other anniversaries

1493.- After discovering America, Christopher Columbus arrives at the port of Palos de Moguer. 1519.- Battle of Centla or second battle of Tabasco, in which Hernán Cortés obtains a new victory, decisive for the conquest of Mexico.1741.- Blas de Lezo counterattacks and defeats the English who, under the command of the privateer Edward Vernon, were trying to take over Cartagena de Indias. 1804.- Promulgation in France of the Civil Code, called Napoleon’s Code. 1858.- Revolution in Venezuela. President José Tades Monagas resigns and places himself under the protection of the diplomatic corps. 1863.- Spain recognizes the independence of Honduras. 1873.- Cuban War: the Battle of Las Guásimas begins, which caused more than a thousand Spanish casualties. 1882. – Inauguration of the first Continental Exhibition in Buenos Aires, attended by almost all the countries of South America. 1892. – Founding of Liverpool FC, one of the historic teams of English football. 1916. – American president Woodrow Wilson sends an army of 12,000 men to fight against the revolutionary Pancho Villa inside Mexico. 1939.- The Germans occupy Prague with little resistance: Czechoslovakia becomes the “German protectorate” of Bohemia and Moravia. 1972.- New York premiere of the film “The Godfather”, by Francis Ford Coppola. 1986.- The Soviet Soyuz T-15 spacecraft docks with the Mir orbital station. 1990.- The Vatican and the USSR establish permanent official relations after 73 years of distancing..- Fernando Collor de Melo takes the oath as president of Brazil. He is the first elected by direct popular vote in 30 years. 1994.- South Africa adopts a new flag (six colors) and adds the indigenous song “God save Africa” to the national anthem. 1996.- The president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang is sworn in as head of state, after being elected in elections criticized by the international community. 1998.- Seventeen Latin American countries establish the Regional Agricultural Technology Fund in Cartagena (Colombia) with 200 million dollars in initial capital. 1999 .- The Pentagon’s Southern Command returns Galeta Island to Panama, located in the Caribbean and an important communications center during World War II. 2000. – NATO and Russia resume their bilateral relations, interrupted by the Kosovo war. 2004. – American astronomers discover the most distant and coldest celestial body known up to that time in the Solar System. 2006. – The UN General Assembly approves the creation of the Human Rights Council, which will replace the Geneva Commission, with the opposition of United States.2011.- First protests in Syria against Bashar al Assad’s regime that led to a civil war that caused more than 600,000 deaths and millions of displaced people.2015.- More than a million people take to the streets of various cities in Brazil to protest against President Dilma Rousseff and corruption.2021.- Spain and France recognize dual nationality as a tribute to exile.

BIRTH

1767.- Andrew Jackson, president of the United States. 1830.- Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1910. 1854.- Emil von Behering, German scientist, creator of vaccines against diphtheria and tetanus, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901.1916.- Blas de Otero, Spanish poet.1920.- E.Donnall Thomas, American doctor, the first to perform a bone marrow transplant. Nobel Prize 1990.1936.- Francisco Ibañez, Spanish cartoonist, creator of “Mortadelo y Filemón” and other children’s comic characters.1947.- Ry Cooder, American guitarist and music producer.1975.- Eva Longoria, American actress.1982.- María Lucía Sánchez Benítez, Malú, Spanish singer.

DEATHS

1975.- Feisal, king of Saudi Arabia.- Aristotle Onassis, Greek magnate.1981.- René Clair, French film director.1988.- Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician.1991.- Moidrag Bulatovic, Yugoslavian writer.1994.- Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director.2004.- JW Streileim, American ophthalmologist and immunologist.2007.- Pedro Ramón Cubilla, former Uruguayan international soccer player.2009.- Ron Silver, American actor.2018.- Alicia Bustamante, actress and Cuban teacher.2020.- Suzy Delair, French actress.

Source: own and agencies.