In the ephemeris of June 28 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
1896. The founding of the Socialist Party
The Socialist Party is founded in Argentina. Five years younger than the Radical Civic Union, it is the second oldest party in the country of all those that are in force. Its founder was Juan Bautista Justo. In 1904, Alfredo Palacios became the first socialist deputy in the Americas. It suffered divisions throughout its history, until its final reunification at the beginning of this century. In 2007, Hermes Binner was elected in Santa Fe as the first socialist governor of Argentina.
1914. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, Duchess Sofia, in the event that triggered the First World War. The royal couple was driving in Sarajevo, the capital of one of the provinces of the Empire, when a grenade exploded next to a car that was escorting them. After a while, and after the failure of that attack, Princip shot into the vehicle that was carrying Francisco Fernando and Sofía. He was arrested and a few weeks the system of alliances that maintained the fine balance between the European powers since the end of the Franco-Prussian War was blown up. Princip was sentenced to twenty years and died in prison in 1918, a few months before the end of the war he helped start.
1926. Nace Mel Brooks
In New York, Melvin Kaminsky, better known as Mel Brooks. One of the masters of comedy in the United States, he got his start on TV, where, among other shows, he created super agent 86. His passage to the cinema was with the successful The producers, for which he received the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In the 70s classics like follies in the west, young frankenstein y Silent movie. later filmed crazy history of the world and parodies of Star Wars, Robin Hood y dracula.
1937. Juan José Saer is born
In the Santa Fe town of Serodino was born John Joseph Saer, one of the greatest Argentine writers. In the 1960s, tales of In the zone y stick and bonewhile writing his first two novels: Response y the full turn. He settled in France in 1968, where he worked as a professor at the University of Rennes. There he wrote the main titles of his work: scars, the royal lemon tree, nothing nobody ever, the understood, Gloss, The occasion (for which he won the Nadal Award), the indelible, the search, Clouds. He also published the storybooks drive the place, The biggest y Place; as well as the essays gathered in The river without banks, The concept of fiction, The narration-object y Jobs. His poetic work is gathered in the art of storytelling. He died in Paris in 2005and a few months later his posthumous and incomplete novel appeared: The big one.
1966. The coup against Illia
Coup d’état against Arturo Illia. The radical president is overthrown and in his replacement he swears Juan Carlos Ongania, head of the Army until the end of 1965. It is the beginning of the dictatorship known as the Argentine Revolution. Illia had taken office in 1963, with barely 24 percent of the vote and Peronism outlawed. Onganía’s regime is markedly conservative and clerical. A month after being installed, the dictatorship will intervene in the universities.
1969. Stonewall and LGBT Pride Day
A group of police officers bursts into the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, at one in the morning. It’s a regular crackdown on gays. But this time, the parishioners react. They resist the search and to be detained for their sexual condition. More and more people gather in front of the Stonewall Inn. Pushing and banging ensue: the police are overwhelmed, with officers hiding in the bar to avoid a rock-throwing mob. The disturbances spread throughout the night in the area and continue for several days. The events of Stonewall mark a milestone: the beginning of the fight for gay rights. One year after the riots, the first gay pride marches were held in New York and Los Angeles. The date is remembered as International LGBT Pride Day.
2009. The overthrow of Manuel Zelaya
The president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, is overthrown and expelled from the country. The coup was carried out on the day that a popular referendum was to be held on a possible reform of the Constitution, in a country that had moved closer to the Nicaragua of Daniel Ortega and the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez. A group of soldiers bursts into the presidential residence and takes Zelaya away in his pajamas. A plane takes him to Costa Rica while an alleged resignation letter that Zelaya denies having written is disclosed in Congress. Roberto Micheletti, president of Congress, takes over in place of the deposed president and the Supreme Court endorses what happened while international criticism is added. At the end of the year, scheduled elections are held and Porfirio Lobo becomes the new presidentdespite rejection by the international community. Zelaya managed to return to Honduras a few months after the coup and remained in asylum in the Brazilian embassy until the beginning of 2010. Then he went to the Dominican Republic and was able to return in 2011. He is an opponent of the governments that succeeded him.
2009. The triumph of Francisco de Narváez
Legislative elections in Argentina. The government of Cristina Fernández advances the elections from October to June. Néstor Kirchner goes out to compete in the province of Buenos Aires. Francisco de Narváez defeats the former president by two points, in an alliance with Felipe Solá and Mauricio Macri. In the city, the deputy head of government, Gabriela Michetti heads the list of deputies and wins comfortably, in an election in which the surprise is given by Pino Solanas, being second with the South Project list. The defeat of Kirchnerism brings changes in the Government: Sergio Massa leaves the leadership to Aníbal Fernández and Amado Boudou replaces Carlos Fernández in Economy. Also, Kirchner resigns from the leadership of the PJand in his place Scioli assumes.