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In 2020, basketball player Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter accident.
In the ephemeris of January 26 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1944. Angela Davis is born, one of the great exponents of feminism in the United States. A political activist, she was one of the faces of the American left in the 1970s and ran for vice president for the Communist Party of the United States in 1984. She published her autobiography in 1974. John Lennon and the Rolling Stones dedicated songs to her.
● 1955. Eddie Van Halen is born in Amsterdam. The guitarist, along with his brother Alex, formed the band Van Halen, one of the most enduring in hard rock. They recorded 14 studio albums. He died of throat cancer on October 6, 2020, ten days after the death of Mark Stone, another of the group’s founders.
● 1972. A Croatian far-right group plants a bomb on JAT Yugoslav Flight 367, the Yugoslav flag carrier, which had taken off from Stockholm bound for Belgrade. The plane breaks in three and crashes near Srbská Kamenice, present-day Czech Republic. 28 people were traveling. There is only one survivor: 22-year-old stewardess Vesna Vulović. Fall without a parachute from 10,160 meters. He suffers fractures of the skull, pelvis and both legs, in addition to the breakage of three vertebrae and several ribs. He spent several days in a coma and his only sequel was a limp. He is the person who has fallen the highest without a parachute and lived to tell about it. However, he had no memory of the incident and had no problem flying again. Some versions deny the official version and say that the plane was shot down by mistake by a Czech missile, and that the woman fell from a lower height. Vulović died in 2016.
● 2004. The poet Joaquín Giannuzzi dies at the age of 79 in the Salta town of Campo Quijano. Born in Buenos Aires in 1924, he worked in media such as Clarion Y Chronicle. From 1958 is his first book of poems, our deadly days. then they would follow contemporary of the world, The conditions of an era Y Signs of a personal cause, among other titles. His complete poetry has been grouped in a single volume.
● 2019. French composer Michel Legrand dies at 87. He was responsible for the soundtrack of The Umbrellas of Cherbourgby Jacques Demy. That film went down in history for being entirely sung. Legrand won three Hollywood Oscars, one of them for Summer of ’42, and collaborated with jazz musicians. He recorded the solo piano work of Erik Satie.
● 2020. Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash. Considered one of the best basketball players of all time, he perished along with eight other people, including his 13-year-old daughter. He was 41 years old and was an emblem of the NBA in recent decades. He played his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers, where he won five titles and retired in 2016. He won Olympic gold with his team in Beijing 2008 and faced a complaint of sexual abuse.
In addition, it is the International Customs Day and the International Day of Environmental Education.