The city of Córdoba celebrates today, July 6, its 450 years

2023-07-06 03:11:00

CITY OF CORDOBA. The 450th anniversary of the founding of the city of Córdoba is commemorated. The capital of the province was founded on July 6, 1573 by the Spanish Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.

On July 6, 1573, the Sevillian Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera founded the city of Córdoba in Nueva Andalucía on the banks of the Suquía river. The name chosen was a tribute to the native land of his wife’s maternal family, Luisa Martel De los Ríos.

According to data from the Historical Archive, the authorities decided to transfer Córdoba to the southern bank of the Suquía River four years after the city was founded, in 1577.

The then Lieutenant Governor Don Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa drew the first plan of the city, of seventy blocks in checkerboard. The document gives an account of a city with ten blocks long and seven wide.

July 11, 1577. The first layout of the city of Córdoba. (Historical Archive of the Province of Córdoba)

The city of Córdoba was declared the provisional capital on two occasions: the first, in 1806, during the English invasions of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and then, in 1955, during the events of the military coup calling itself the Liberating Revolution.

In 1813, Córdoba had the original 72 blocks of the foundation, distributed in 12 barracks where more than 8,500 people lived. (Wikipedia / Edisur Group)

Ephemeris: two Cordovan icons also have birthdays

This July 6, two other icons recognized by all Cordoba who also have birthdays.

On the one hand, the Arch of Córdoba. It was inaugurated on July 6, 1943. The world, still at war, showed postcards of these constructions that marked the entrance to large capitals such as Rome or Paris as a milestone.

And he did it through cinema and its black and white images. And Córdoba would have its portico, inaugurated during the administration of Donato Latella Frías.

Inauguration party of the Arco de Córdoba. (The Voice / File)

The stonecutters who built the towers and the arch that joins them were Croatian immigrants, specialists in working with stone and who also shaped the shape of La Cañada.

The Arco de Córdoba, erected on the edge of the current Empalme neighborhood, welcomes all those who come to the city of Córdoba.

Arch of Cordoba. (Nicolas Bravo / The Voice)

On the other hand, the Municipal Palace also celebrates its birthday. Martín Federico, mayor between 1951 and 1954, was the one who made the decision to build the Palace. It was located in front of the Paseo de Sobremonte and before its limit with the Cañada, one of the landscapes engraved in the retina of the city.

Palace July 6. Exterior view of the building in the 1960s (Esteban Urdampilleta / plataformaarquitectura.cl) 6 de Julio Palace. This is what the ground floor looked like when the building was inaugurated. (Photo by Esteban Urdampilleta published on plataformaarquitectura.cl)

It was designed by the Sepra studio, by the architects Santiago Sánchez Elia, Federico Peralta Ramos and Alfredo Agostini. It is a construction of the architectural movement called “brutalism”.

More ephemeris

1907 – FRIDA KAHLO. The painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón) was born in the Mexican city of Coyoacán, recognized for her self-portraits and one of the greatest expressions of social and cultural feminism in Mexico. She was the wife of the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon.

1921 – PEPA NOIA. Josefina García de Noia, better known as Pepa Noia, was born in Buenos Aires, one of the thirteen mothers who disappeared who gave the first round in Plaza de Mayo. She is the mother of María Lourdes Noia, one of the disappeared persons during the last civic-military dictatorship.

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1933 – HIPOLITO YRIGOYEN. Around 200,000 people accompany the funeral procession of former President Hipólito Yrigoyen, who ruled between 1916 and 1922 and between 1928 and 1930, when he was overthrown by the military coup that would give rise to the so-called “infamous decade” of Argentine history.

1946 – SYLVESTER STALLONE. Born in the New York neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, one of the most violent on the island of Manhattan, the actor and film director Sylvester Stallone (Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone), winner of a Golden Globe Award. He filmed more than 55 films , including “Rocky” (1976), with which he rose to fame in the leading role of boxer Rocky Balboa.

Sylvester Stallone. (DPO)

1957 – LENNON MCCARTNEY. The young musicians John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet at the Woolton Village fair in the English city of Liverpool, where they begin the bond of friendship and creativity with which they supported the pop rock band The Beatles.

Between 1962 and 1969, they wrote and published some 180 songs, the vast majority recorded with the legendary British band they formed along with Ringo Starr and George Harrison.

The Beatles, in rehearsal situation. (Disney+)

1958 – JUAN M. FANGIO. The motorsport driver Juan Manuel Fangio announces his retirement at the end of the French Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Reims circuit. Fangio won five world championships in the highest category of motorsports.

1971 – LOUIS ARMSTRONG. At the age of 69, American trumpeter Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, dies in New York City, one of the most popular and influential figures in jazz history. He recorded thirty albums and acted in six films, among them the famous “Hello Dolly ”.

Louis Armstrong.

1997 – CHE GUEVARA. After three decades of searches, the remains of the Argentine-Cuban doctor and guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara are found in Vallegrande, a town located in south-central Bolivia.

2023 – ZOONOSIS DAY. World Zoonoses Day is celebrated, declared by the World Health Organization in commemoration of the date in 1885 when the French physicist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur first applied the first rabies vaccine to a person infected with rabies. He was a 9-year-old boy bitten by a mad dog.

Other ephemeris

1808.- José I Bonaparte, named King of Spain by his brother, promulgates the Constitution of Bayonne.

1821.- Harassed by the forces of General San Martín, José de la Serna, the last viceroy of Peru, leaves Lima and establishes his government in Cuzco.

1827.- Treaty of London, between England, France and Russia, which recognizes the independence of Greece.

1864.- Royal Order of Isabel II that recognizes the Red Cross as a society of public utility, thus taking Spain ahead of other nations. It had been created a year before by the Swiss Henry Dunant.

1876.- Inauguration of the Intercolonial Railway, with the arrival in Quebec of the first train from Halifax (Canada).

1917.- Victory of the troops of the British soldier Thomas Edward Lawrence, “Lawrence of Arabia”, and Auda ibu Tayi in the battle of Aqaba, in their effort to unify the Arabs against the Ottomans.

1918.- The German ambassador in Moscow, W.Gref von Mirbach-Harff, is assassinated by two members of the Social Revolutionary Party with the intention of creating a conflict between the two countries and the uprising against the Bolshevik government begins.

1923.- The Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR approves the draft Federal Constitution, whose supreme body is the Congress of Soviets. It was approved the following year at the II Congress of Soviets.

1928.- The Chilean military ship “Angamos” capsizes off the coast of Lebu (Arauco) and 262 of its 269 occupants die.

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1952.- Bloody disorders and allegations of fraud in Mexico in the elections won by Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (PRI).

1960.- Cuba approves Law 851 of compensation for the US properties that it nationalizes.

1972.- The liberal democrat Kakuei Tanaka, proclaimed prime minister of Japan and succeeds Eisaku Sato.

1981.- The former Argentine president María Estela Martínez de Perón, who had served two thirds of the sentence of almost 8 years imposed, was released by pardon. Immediately afterwards, she fixed her residence in Madrid.

1986.- Failed coup in the Philippines against the president, Corazón “Cory” Aquino, headed by the lawyer and former vice-presidential candidate Arturo Tolentino.

1988.- 167 workers die in the explosion of the “Piper Alpha” oil platform in the North Sea.

– The “priista” Carlos Salinas de Gortari wins the Mexican elections.

1989.- The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agrees to respect the freedom of Eastern countries to choose their political and social system.

1992.- The Guatemalan Government declares a state of maximum emergency due to a cholera epidemic, detected in 1991 and which causes more than 800 deaths in several years.

1997.- Legislative elections in Mexico: the PRI loses its absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies for the first time.

– Cambodian co-prime minister Hun Sen dismisses his rival Prince Norodom Ranariddh, accusing him of being a “criminal” and “traitor”.

2001.- The Caricom Summit in Nassau (Bahamas) approves the creation of a Single Caribbean Market.

2009.- At least 184 deaths in clashes between the Uyghurs and the security forces in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang (China).

2013.- Forty-seven deaths, five missing and 2,000 evacuees due to the derailment and fire of a train loaded with hydrocarbons in Lac-Megantic (Canada).

2018.- Shoko Asahara, founder of the Supreme Truth sect, responsible for the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, is executed.

BIRTHS

1832.- Maximilian I of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico.

1877.- Niceto Alcalá Zamora, president of the Second Spanish Republic.

1914.- José García Nieto, Spanish poet and writer.

1919.- Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor.

1925.- Bill Haley, American singer, considered the father of “rock and roll”.

1927.- Janet Leigh, American actress.

1935.- Tensing Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet.

1946.- George Walker Bush, former US president.

1975.- Curtis Jackson III, American rapper known as ’50 Cent’.

1980.- Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player.

DEATHS

1476.- Johannes Regiomontanus, German astronomer and mathematician, one of the fathers of trigonometry.

1598.- Benito Arias Montano, Spanish writer.

1893.- Guy de Maupassant, French writer.

1959.-George Grosz, German nationalized American painter.

1962.- William Faulkner, American writer and Nobel 1949.

1964.- Rafael Cansinos Assens, Spanish writer.

1999.- Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer.

2005.- Claude Simon, French writer and Nobel 1985.

2006.- Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor.

2019.- Joao Gilberto, Brazilian composer and one of the fathers of bossa nova.

2020.- Ennio Morricone, Italian soundtrack composer.

Source: own and agencies.

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