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2024 – DAY OF HAPPINESS. The International Day of Happiness is celebrated, established in 2012 by the United Nations in recognition of the important role of this emotional state in the lives of people around the world.

The date seeks to promote the idea that happiness is a fundamental human right and highlight the importance of people around the world aspiring to be happy.

Illustrative image.

The initiative to establish a day dedicated to happiness was proposed by Bhutan, a country located in the Himalayan region, which since the early 1970s has measured its country’s progress in terms of “Gross National Happiness” instead of using the traditional Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Finally, in 2012, the UN General Assembly proclaimed March 20 as the International Day of Happiness. Since then, every year this day is celebrated with different activities, events and campaigns to promote happiness, connection and solidarity between people around the world.

More anniversaries

1861 – CUYO EARTHQUAKE. An earthquake measuring 7 degrees on the Richter scale shakes the city of Mendoza and causes the death of 4,247 people and hundreds of injuries, the largest earthquake in the history of the Cuyo province. The earthquake caused fires that took four days to put out.

1953 – LUISA KULIOK IS BORN. The multi-award-winning actress Luisa Kuliok (Luisa Matilde Kullock) with an extensive career in theater, film and television is born in Buenos Aires. She gained international fame with the soap opera “The Strange Lady” (1989).

1957 – SPIKE LEE IS BORN. American actor and filmmaker Spike Lee (Shelton Jackson Lee), director of Malcolm X, BlacKkKlansman and Do the right thing, among other celebrated films, was born in the city of Atlanta (Georgia, USA).

Spike Lee,. (AP)

1966 – JULES RIMET. The Jules Rimet Cup, at that time the highest football trophy, which was displayed in London to promote the 1966 World Cup in England, was stolen. It was found thanks to the dog Pickles, pet of British journalist David Corbett, who discovered it next to a neighbor’s car. of his employer. Corbett received a medal and a $1,500 reward and a special gift for his pet, who was also decorated.

The Jules Rimet Trophy, displayed at the FIFA Museum. Photo: FIFA

1969 – JOHN LENNON. The Beatle John Lennon marries the Japanese artist Yoko Ono at the British consulate on the Rock of Gibraltar with only two guests as witnesses to the wedding. Lennon left The Beatles in September 1969 and his departure was not immediately announced because the British pop rock band was renegotiating their recording contract.

John Lennon y Yoko Ono. (AP)

1971 – ALEXANDER KAPRANOS. The British musician and composer Alexander Kapranos, leader, guitarist and vocalist of the rock band Franz Ferdinand, was born in the town of Almondsbury (Gloucestershire, England).

2002 – THE SIMULATORS. The Telefé channel broadcasts the first episode of the successful television series Los Simuladores, directed by Damián Szifrón and starring Diego Peretti, Alejandro Fiore, Martín Seefeld and Federico D’Elía. The series won the 2002 Martín Fierro de Oro Award. After a second season in 2003, versions of the series were made in Chile, Spain, Mexico and Russia.

The Simulators manage well to take over the nights.

2016 – BARACK OBAMA. The president of the United States, Barack Obama, arrives in Havana on a rapprochement visit with Cuba, 54 years after his country imposed an economic blockade against the Caribbean island. Obama thus became the first American president to visit Cuba since 1928.

The former president of the United States, Barack Obama. (AP)

2020 – MANDATORY QUARANTINE. The decree of necessity and urgency of President Alberto Fernández comes into force, which ordered the “total isolation” of the population to face the Covid-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS Cov-2 virus that appeared at the end of 2019 in the Chinese city. from Wuhan.

2020 – AMADEO CARRIZO DIES. At the age of 93, former soccer player Amadeo Carrizo, one of the best goalkeepers in the history of Argentine soccer and a pioneer in the innovation of plays in his position, dies in Buenos Aires. He played for River Plate, Millonarios de Colombia and the Argentine national team.

Amadeo Carrizo. (AFP)

Other anniversaries

1583- Juan de Garay and 40 other Spaniards die at the hands of the indigenous people while they were sleeping in the open, on their trip to Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (Argentina). 1807- The English take Alexandria, after the arrival of Napoleon’s army in Egypt .1814- The Chilean army, under the orders of General O’Higgins, defeats the royal troops, commanded by General Gabino Gaínza, in the fields of Membrillar. 1815- Napoleon arrives in Paris and begins the period of his second and short-lived mandate: the “hundred days”.1878- Salgar-Wyse Treaty, by virtue of which Colombia cedes to Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse the privilege of building the Panama Canal.1916- The German physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein publishes his “General Theory of relativity.” 1926- Chinese civil war: An alleged plot by the captain of the warship Zhongshan triggers the war between Chiang-Kai-Chek’s Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. 1956- Tunisia proclaims its independence. 1956- Eruption of Mount Bezymianny in Kamchatka, Russia, a volcano thought to be extinct. It is considered the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. 1974- A young British man tries to kidnap Anne of England, daughter of Queen Elizabeth, and her husband Captain Mark Philips when they were on their way to Buckingham Palace in London. 1995- The religious sect “Aum Shinrikyo” (Supreme Truth) attacks the Tokyo subway with sarin gas. With thirteen dead and several thousand intoxicated, it was the worst terrorist attack in the history of Japan. 2001 – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) condemns Peru for a massacre of peasants in 1991 known as the “Barrios Altos” case. 2003 – At 5:35 local time, the invasion of Iraq begins. 2010 – Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to the victims of pedophile priests in Ireland. 2014 – The Russian Duma ratifies the incorporation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into the Federation Russian.

BIRTH

1828- Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright.1890- Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor.1915- Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist.1915- Rosetta Tharpe, “Sister Rosetta,” American gospel singer and guitarist, pioneer of rock and roll.1927- José Guinovart , Spanish painter.1936- Lina Morgan, Spanish comic actress.1947- Hasan Ibn Talal, prince of Jordan.1950- William Hurt, American actor.1957- Spike Lee, American film director.1958- Holly Hunter, American actress.1967 – Yukito Kishiro, Japanese comic artist. 1968 – John Kocinski, American motorcycle racer.

DEATHS

1929- Ferdinand Foch, French marshal.1947- Pedro Emilio Coll, Venezuelan writer.1990- Victor Rothschild, British financier.1993- Antonio Quadros, Portuguese philosopher and historian.2004- Juliana of Holland, mother of Queen Beatrix.2009- Abdelatif Filali, former Moroccan prime minister.2017- David Rockefeller, American banker.2018- Paul Bocuse, French chef, promoter of “nouvelle cuisine”.2020- Carlos Falcó, Marquis of Griñón, Spanish aristocrat and businessman.

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