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In the ephemeris of february 11 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1858. According to the story of the young French shepherdess Bernadette Soubirous, 14, the first of several apparitions of the Virgin Mary occurs before her. It takes place in Lourdes, near the Pyrenees. The young woman assures her that her appearance confirmed the immaculate conception of Christ. She entered a convent, where she died at the age of 35. Pope Pius XI canonized her in 1933. Lourdes became a center of pilgrimage for Catholics and her feast day is celebrated on February 11.
● 1948. go dead Sergei Eisenstein, at age 50. With his montage technique he revolutionized cinema. the strike, The Battleship Potemkin Y October were the pinnacle of his work in the 1920s. He traveled to Mexico for his project Hurray Mexico!, an unfinished film that intended to show the country’s history from the pre-Columbian era to the Revolution. Back in the USSR, the filmmaker directed Alexander Nevsky e Ivan the Terrible.
● 1963. The Beatles enter Abbey Road studios to put together their first LP. The day lasts almost ten hours. It starts with “There´sa Place” and ends with “Twist and Shout”. The recorded material will integrate Please Please Methe Liverpool band’s first album, due out in March.
● 1975. For the first time, a woman is at the head of a political party in the United Kingdom with the arrival of Margaret Thatcher as the leader of the Conservative Party. Thatcher, graduated in chemistry and law, is 49 years old and between 1970 and 1974 she was Minister of Education. Her rise marks the beginning of fifteen years of leadership and the transformation of British conservatism into a force rooted in neo-liberal economics. Until 1979 she will be the leader of the opposition: that year she will win the elections.
● 1977. Oscar Smith, general secretary of the Luz y Fuerza union, is kidnapped in Villa Dominico by a task force of the dictatorship. He was 45 years old and has been missing ever since. Smith had led, since October 1976, a plan of struggle, in what was the first major union action since the beginning of the military regime.
● 1979. The Islamic Revolution triumphs in Iran. The fall of the Shah’s government is consummated, and he goes into exile. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns from France and seizes power. The country becomes a theocracy of Shiite clerics who rely on the literal interpretation of the Koran. Khomeini abolishes the Imperial State of the Pahlavi dynasty and imposes the Islamic Republic of Iran. Social discontent and the westernization of the country were the breeding ground for the revolutionary triumph.
● 1990. Nelson Mandela regains his freedom, 27 years after being imprisoned and becoming the most famous political prisoner in the world. The leader of the African National Congress leaves prison, within the framework of the opening process of President Frederik de Klerk. symbol of fighting apartheid, Mandela would share the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with De Klerk. In April 1994 he will win the first free elections and become president.
● 2007. Portugal approves the decriminalization of abortion through a referendum, nine years after the narrow victory of the No with 51 percent. This time, the initiative receives the favorable vote of 59 percent of the Portuguese. Since then, voluntary termination of pregnancy is allowed up to the tenth week of gestation.
● 2013. Pope Benedict XVI makes an announcement that shakes the Church: he resigns as Supreme Pontiff. She does it with a speech read in Latin. The fact has no precedent in six centuries and opens the struggle for his succession, in an unimagined scenario: that two popes coexist. Joseph Ratzinger had been elected pope in 2005, at the age of 78, and had suffered severe wear and tear ever since. In 2012 he had to face the document leak crisis known as DadLeaks. The resignation, effective from February 28, opens the way to the conclave that will elect Jorge Bergoglio as his successor.
● 2016. The existence of gravitational waves is confirmed. The LIGO Observatory makes the announcement, in what represents one of the milestones of science in the 21st century. These are space-time disturbances produced by an accelerated celestial body. The waves are transmitted at the speed of light and had been predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity. The Argentine physicist Gabriela González is the one who communicates that on September 14, 2015 a gravitational wave could be observed. Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss receive the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research.
In addition, it is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, established by UNESCO.