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On April 18, 1956, Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly were married.
In the ephemeris of April 18 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1906. San Francisco earthquake. A devastating earthquake causes about 10 thousand deaths. Nearly 300,000 people, out of a total of 400,000, lost their homes. Six days earlier, the first tremors had begun to be recorded in the San Andreas fault zone. The tremor was 7.9 degrees and led to a fire that was as catastrophic as the telluric movement.
● 1940. Louis Brandoni born in Dock Sud. One of the actors with the longest career, his career has spanned cinema (Tute Cabrero, Truce, The Rebel Patagonia, John who laughed, Waiting for the carriage, I’ll be anything but I love you, Made in Argentina, A hundred times I must not, coexistence, The fury, My masterpiece, The tale of the weasels, The odyssey of the giles), television (hustlerMi brother-in-law, sleeping with my boss, The man of your life, A rooster for Aesculapius), and theater (the accompaniment, Lezama Park). A union leader, he presided over the Argentine Association of Actors and, threatened by Triple A, had to go into exile. He militates in radicalism and has been a national deputy.
● 1955. pass away Albert Einstein at Princeton. He was 76 years old and decades ago he had become the most famous scientist in the world. His theory of relativity, postulated in 1905, changed the paradigms of modern physics. Ten years later he presented the complete version of the theory, which reformulated the notion of gravity and paved the way for studies in cosmology. He got the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He left Germany because of Nazism. In his last years he advocated for world peace.
● 1956. fairy tale in Monaco. Prince Rainier, head of state of the second smallest country in the world after the Vatican, marries actress Grace Kelly. The girlfriend abandons her career in Hollywood, which even gave her an Oscar a year earlier. It is the first major post-World War II royal wedding to draw media attention from around the world. They contract a civil bond and the next day the religious marriage takes place. The marriage lasted until 1982, when the princess died in a car accident. They had three children: Carolina, Estefanía and Alberto. Rainier passed away in 2005 and Albert succeeded him.
● 1976. the actor is born Rodrigo de la Serna. It was consecrated at the beginning of the century with Occupy and since then I alternate cinema and television. On the big screen he was seen in blind rooster, Motorcycle Diaries, Chronicle of an escape, San Martin: the crossing of the Andes y call me Francis. On TV she appeared in brothers and detectives, The pointer, the lobbyist y The Money Heist. She also acted in plays, such as Amadeus. In addition, he ventures into music, with the group El Yotivencoa Creole guitar quartet with whom he performs tangos, candombes and milongas.
● 1995. arturo frondizi dies at 86 years old. Born in Paso de los Libres in 1908, he joined the UCR. He was one of the 44 deputies of the radical bloc during the first Peronism and running mate of Ricardo Balbín in 1951. He published the book politics and oil, in which he spoke of the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the hands of the State as the engine of the economy, in response to Perón’s contract with Standard Oil. After the 1955 coup, he broke radicalism. He formed the UCRI, while Balbín stayed with the party structure, converted into UCR del Pueblo. He agreed with an exiled Perón and the votes of the proscribed Peronism allowed him to reach the presidency in 1958. He put into practice the opposite of what was stated in his book and handed over oil exploitation to North American companies. Developmentalism proposed a variant of import substitution and he applied an orthodox program with Álvaro Alsogaray. Repressed with the Conintes Plan and withstood more than thirty military proposals. Frondizi annulled the 1962 elections, in the face of the advance of Peronism and military pressure, but it did not prevent him from being overthrown.
● 2002. In Andora, Italy, the Norwegian explorer dies Thor Heyerdahl, at 87 years old. He gained world fame in 1947 with the voyage of the Kon-Tiki, the raft with which he traveled from Peru to Polynesia with the aim of proving that the ancient inhabitants of America could have crossed the Pacific. The trip took 101 days and 7 thousand kilometers. Later, he would arrive with the Ra II papyrus boat expedition, with which he wanted to prove that the Egyptians could have sailed the Atlantic.
Furthermore, it is the International Day for Monuments and Sitesand the World Amateur Radio Day.