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2024 – GASTRONOMIC DAY. The Day of the Pizza Maker, Pastry Chef, Confectioner, Ice Cream Maker and Pottery Worker is commemorated in commemoration of the date in 1946 on which his union was founded.

That January 12, 78 years ago, the Union of Pastry Workers, Confectioners, Ice Cream Makers, Pizza Makers and Alfajoreros (STPCHyA) was founded. According to data from 2022, it is estimated that this organization, which ensures the rights of its workers, has more than 40,000 members.

Ephemeris. Worker’s Day pizza maker, pastry chef, confectioner, ice cream maker and pottery maker. (illustrative image)

15 years after the death of Alejandro Sokol

15 years ago, on January 12, 2009, the musician and composer Alejandro “Bocha” Sokol passed away.

The vocalist died at 48 in the city of Río Cuarto. He was bassist of the rock band Sumo and later vocalist of Las Pelotas. He is considered one of the most influential musicians in Argentine rock.

Alejandro Sokol, an artist who is missed.

More anniversaries

1628 – CHARLES PERRAULT. The French writer Charles Perrault was born in Paris, recognized for giving literary form to classic children’s stories such as Thumbelina, Bluebeard, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots, in some cases moderating the crudeness of their oral versions.

Charles Perrault. (Creative Commons)

1899 – SARMIENTO FRIGATE. The frigate Presidente Sarmiento makes its first training trip for Navy cadets. It was the longest voyage in her history: for more than 20 months she moored in 71 ports around the world. Built in England, she made 39 voyages around the world, covering a total of 1,100,000 nautical miles. Now she is moored in Dock III of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Puerto Madero, converted into a museum

Frigate Presidente Sarmiento. (Courtesy Marine Gazette)

1944 – CARLOS VILLAGRAN. The actor and comedian Carlos Villagrán Eslava, popularly known for playing the role of the boy Quico in the Mexican series El Chavo del 8, was born in Mexico City.

Carlos Villagrán as Quico.

1966 – BATMAN PREMIERE. The American television network ABC broadcasts the first episode of the Batman series, played by Adam West and with Burt Ward in the role of Robin, the superhero’s companion. The series aired until 1968, in three seasons with a total of 120 episodes.

Adam West, the first Batman on the small screen.

1969 – LED ZEPPELIN. The British hard rock band Led Zeppelin releases its first studio album, Led Zeppelin I, which contains songs like Good times, bad times and Your time is gonna come. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 29th on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

1976 – AGATHA CHRISTIE. The writer and playwright Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller), a reference in the police genre, especially for the novels starring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, dies in the English city of Wallingford at the age of 85. She is one of the most read writers in the world. She published 66 detective novels, six romance novels and fourteen short stories under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, in addition to venturing into theater in works such as The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution.

Agatha Christie.

1984 – ARGENTINE NATIONAL TEAM. Under the technical direction of Carlos Salvador Bilardo, the Argentine team plays for the first time on the Asian continent. It was in the team’s 1-0 victory against Romania in the Nehru Cup match played in the Indian city of Calcutta.

2010 – HAITI EARTHQUAKE. An earthquake with an epicenter 15 kilometers from Port-au-Prince shakes Haiti, killing about 316,000 people and injuring nearly 350,000. In addition, one and a half million residents were left homeless in one of the most serious humanitarian catastrophes in history. The earthquake and its aftershocks were felt in neighboring countries such as the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica, where it caused panic and preventive evacuations.

(Archive)

Other anniversaries

1807.- Part of the city of Leiden (Netherlands) is destroyed by the explosion of a ship loaded with gunpowder.

1909.- The Turkish Government accepts the Austrian proposal to renounce its rights over Bosnia-Herzegovina in exchange for financial compensation.

1936.- The Spanish-Cuban aviator Antonio Menéndez Peláez takes off from the Camagüey airport (Cuba) to make a solo transatlantic flight to Seville, where he arrived on February 14.

1981.- The first episode of the television series “Dynasty” is broadcast.

1988.- The first “test tube” quintuplets in the world are born in Michigan (USA).

1995.- The French president, Francois Mitterrand, inaugurates the largest music complex in Europe in Paris, measuring 50,000 square meters.

1998.- Nineteen European countries sign in Paris the Council of Europe protocol that prohibits the cloning of human beings, the first international legal text on this matter.

1999.- American singer Britney Spears releases her first album “…Baby One More Time”.

2005.- The United States announces the end of the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

2006.- More than three hundred pilgrims die in Mecca due to an avalanche.

2009.- The first transaction on the bitcoin digital currency network is carried out.

2015.- Cuba completes the release of 53 political prisoners, agreed with the US.

2016.- A suicide bomber from the Islamic State (IS) kills ten German tourists near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul (Turkey).

2017.- The US ends the “wet foot/dry foot” policy for Cubans, which allowed them to obtain permanent residence one year after arriving, even illegally.

BIRTH

1746.- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue.

1893.- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader and war criminal.

1907.- Sergei Korolyov, Ukrainian engineer, considered the father of the Soviet space program.

1916.- Pieter Wilhelm Botha, former South African president.

1933.- Liliana Cavani, Italian film director.

1949.- Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer.

1964.- Jeff Bezos, American businessman, founder of Amazon.

1966.- Olivier Martinez, French actor.

1968.- Mauro da Silva Gomes, former Brazilian soccer player.

1972.- Quique Dacosta, Spanish chef.

1993.- Zayn Malik, British singer.

1995.- Nathy Peluso, Argentine singer.

1998.- Nathan Gamble, American actor.

DEATHS

1963.- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer.

1991.- Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer.

2002.- Cyrus Vance, American politician.

2003.- Leopoldo Galtieri, former dictator of Argentina.

2004.- Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician.

2008.- Angel González, Spanish poet.

2009.- Claude Berri, French filmmaker.

2015.- Juan José López-Ibor Aliño, Spanish psychiatrist.

2017.- William Peter Blatty, American writer and screenwriter, author of “The Exorcist.”

2021.- Enrique Pineda Barnet, Cuban filmmaker.

2022.- Ronnie Spector, American singer, vocalist of the group The Ronettes.

Source: own and agencies.