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2024 – DAY OF THE MUSICIAN. Every January 23, National Musician’s Day is celebrated by law of the National Congress in commemoration of the birth of Luis Alberto Spinetta.

Spinetta, one of the most important and influential musicians in the history of national and Latin American rock, was born on January 23, 1950. His lyrics and songs are part of the heritage of our cultural history.

Luis Alberto Spinetta

The music great died on February 8, 2012, at the age of 62, from lung cancer.

El Flaco Spinetta, in a show in Córdoba in 2007.

More anniversaries

1832 – MANET. Born in Paris, France, Édouard Manet. He was one of the most influential artists in the history of art, the works of this painter and engraver are considered the initiators of impressionism.

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Nora Cárpena.

1956 – PATRICIA SOSA. Patricia Elena Sosa is born, owner of a powerful voice and one of the most important singers in national music. She was one of the first women to lead a heavy rock band and later dedicated herself to melodic songwriting. She won five Konex Awards.

1974 – DANIEL PASSARELLA. Daniel Alberto Passarella plays his first game with the River shirt against Boca in a match played in Mar del Plata. He is one of the best Argentine defenders.

Iconic image of the ’78 World Cup, with Daniel Pasarella (Télam)

1977 – PINK FLOYD. In England the group Pink Floyd releases “Animals”, their tenth album. It is a strong criticism of the sociopolitical conditions that the United Kingdom was going through during the 1970s.

1983 – BRIGADA A. The first episode of Brigada A, an iconic series of the 1980s, is broadcast in New York, United States. The premiere episode is televised for the first time on the American network NBC.

Brigade A

1985 1st ISSUE. At 106.3 on the dial, FM Rock & Pop begins to transmit its signal, with musical programming that is not common in the rest of the radio stations.

1989 – SALVADOR DALÍ. In Gerona, Spain, Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech dies. Painter and writer considered one of the greatest representatives of surrealism.

Dalí.

1989 – LA TABLADA. The frustrated attack on the Infantry Regiment took place, known as the seizure of the La Tablada barracks, which left more than 100 wounded and 45 dead.

Cuping. The La Tablada regiment, attacked in January 1989.

1998 – WOS. Valentín Oliva, known professionally as Wos, is born. Rapper singer and freestyler, he is one of the most recognized urban artists in the country. He won four Carlos Gardel awards.

2014 – HEAT WAVE. The thermal sensation in Buenos Aires reaches 47.6° and in Chaco it reaches 57.6°, a historic heat wave in Argentina. It caused the death of four people.

Other anniversaries

1826.- The fortified port of El Callao (Peru), the last stronghold of Spanish resistance in continental America, surrenders.

1896.- The German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen makes his first demonstration of X-rays before the Wurzburg Physical Medical Society. He had discovered X-rays by chance on November 8, 1895.

1904.- The Norwegian port city of Alesund is destroyed by fire.

1950.- The Israeli parliament declares Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

1954.- The writer Ernest Hemingway survives two plane crashes that occurred in consecutive days. The first, on January 23, on a flight from Nairobi to the Congo, and the second, the next day when he took another plane that exploded during takeoff.

1958.- A military coup overthrows the dictatorship of President Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela. Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal becomes President.

1960.- The Swiss Jacques Piccard, together with the American Don Walsh, and aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaches the record depth of 10,911 meters, in the Mariana Islands Trench.

1994.- La Chinita Massacre: a commando of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) breaks into a festival in the La Chinita neighborhood, in the town of Apartadó (department of Antioquia) and murders 35 people.

2003. Ivory Coast is attacked by the regular Liberian Army and asks France for help.

2004.- The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forgive 4.5 billion dollars of debt to Nicaragua.

2006.- Forty-six people die in a train accident in Montenegro, near Podgorica.

2012.- Inauguration of the first Egyptian Parliament after the Mubarak era, with 70% of the seats in Islamist hands.

2014.- The Government of South Sudan and the rebels sign a ceasefire agreement in Addis Ababa.

2019.- The president of the Venezuelan Parliament, Juan Guaidó, proclaims himself interim president of the country.

2020.- China confines the city of Wuhan (11 million inhabitants) in the first coronavirus confinement in the world.

BIRTH

1783.- Henri Beyle, Stendhal, French writer.

1918.- Gertrude Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988.

1921.- Marija Gimbutas, American archaeologist of Lithuanian origin.

1928.- Jeanne Moreau, French actress.

1930.- Derek Walcott, poet born on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, Nobel Prize in Literature 1992.

1947.- Megawati Sukarnoputri, expresident of Indonesia.

1954.- Franco de Vita, Venezuelan singer-songwriter.

1955.- Ramón Lobo, Spanish journalist.

1957.- Carolina Grimaldi, princess of Monaco.

1962.- Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist, creator of the literary character “Manolito Gafotas”.

1967.- Magdalena Andersson, former Prime Minister of Sweden.

1969.- Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress.

1971.- Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Spanish doctor, director of the National Transplant Organization (ONT).

1989.- April Pearson, British actress.

DEATHS

1516.- Ferdinand the Catholic, king of Spain.

1648.- Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish playwright.

1744.- Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher.

1883.- Paul-Gustave Doré, French painter and engraver.

1928.- María Guerrero, Spanish actress.

1931.- Anna Pavlova, bailarina rusa.

1944.- Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter.

1947.- Pierre Bonnard, French pintor.

2004. Helmut Newton, German photographer.

2007.- Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and writer.

2010.- Earl Wild, American pianist.

2015.- Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, king of Saudi Arabia.

2017.- Bimba Bosé (Eleonora Salvatore), Spanish model, actress and singer.

2018.- Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet.

2019.- Caio Junqueira, Brazilian actor.

2020.- Jim Lehrer, American journalist.

2021.- Larry King, American television presenter.

2022.- Jean-Claude Mézières, creator of French comics.

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