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On April 11, 1944, Alberto Demiddi was born.
In the ephemeris of april 11 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1870. Is murdered Just Jose de Urquiza. The winner of the battle of Caseros was 68 years old. He was ambushed by a group that responded to the caudillo Ricardo López Jordán, who stormed the San José Palace and killed him. That same day, in Concordia, his two eldest sons were killed. Governor of Entre Ríos, Urquiza ended the era of Juan Manuel de Rosas and led the National Organization, a period marked by the sanction of the National Constitution, in 1853. Urquiza was the first president elected under the new Magna Carta and governed between 1854 and 1860, with Buenos Aires split from the rest of the country. His withdrawal from the battle of Pavón, in 1861, marked the predominance of Buenos Aires and the end of the Argentine Confederation.
● 1944. born Alberto Demiddi, the greatest rower in Argentine history. She won the bronze medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and took silver four years later in Munich in the single scull. Twelve consecutive times he was Argentine champion and four times he won the South American title. He won the world title in 1970, in Canada. He also won gold medals at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg 67 and Cali 71, as well as the Olimpia de Oro in 1969 and 1971. He passed away in 2000. The day of his birth is remembered in Argentina as Rower’s Day.
● 1983. the spanish film Start overdirected by José Luis Garci (director of Pending subject Y Alone in the morning), makes history by becoming the first film in Spanish to win an Oscar. The film starring Antonio Ferrandis and Encarna Paso focuses on a writer who returns in his old age to the city of Gijón.
● 2001. In a qualifying match for the 2002 Japan-Korea World Cup, Australia thrashed American Samoa at home 31-0. It is the biggest goleada ever registered between selections. The first half ends 16-0. Archie Thompson scores 13 goals. The difference is so large, that the stadium’s poster recorded 32 goals at the end and there were journalists who lost count and attributed one more goal to Thompson.
● 2002. Coup d’état in Venezuela against Hugo Chavez. An opposition march leads to clashes with groups of supporters of the government and there are 18 dead. Military commanders take advantage and take up arms. They arrest Chavez and announce that he has resigned. Pedro Carmona, head of the main business group in the country, assumes as de facto president. The popular mobilization, the international non-recognition of the new government and loyal military succeed in restoring Chavez to power three days later.
● 2007. at 84 years old go dead Kurt Vonnegut. One of the authors who mixed satire and science fiction in his work published titles like sirens of titan Y Galapagos. He is also the author of slaughterhouse fivewhich focuses on his traumatic experience in the bombing of Dresden, and Breakfast of Champions.
● 2009. Two weeks before her 82nd birthday, the Spanish writer María del Socorro Tellado López, better known as Corín Tellado. She was the author of some 5 thousand novels and stories since 1946, in the genre of romantic literature. She was translated into 27 languages and it is estimated that she sold 400 million copies with her serials, making her the best-selling author in the language. Part of her work reached the cinema and television.
● 2014. go dead Alfredo Alcon, a glory of scenic art in Argentina. She was 84 years old. She shone in theater and cinema, as well as in television series. On stage he was seen in plays by Shakespeare, in long journey into the night de O’Neill, and Peer Gynt the Ibsen, and Frederick’s paths, with texts by García Lorca. In cinema he was a fetish actor for Leopoldo Torre Nilsson in films like A handsome man from the 900, Martin Fierro, the saint of the sword, The maffia Y painted mouths. She also acted in Nazareno Cruz and the wolf by Leonardo Favio and was the voice of Cortazar by Tristan Bauer.
Furthermore, it is the International Parkinson’s Day.