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Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969.
In the ephemeris of March 17 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1920. In Toay, province of La Pampa, was born Olga Orozco. One of the great Argentine poetsHe published, among other books, From afar, The deaths, the dangerous games, in the back of the sky, With this mouth in this world and Also the light is an abyss. He died in 1999.
● 1969. Golda Meir takes office as Prime Minister of Israel. She is the first woman to hold that position in the country and the third in the world. She ruled until 1974 and she had to face the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, as well as the Yom Kippur War. Born in the Ukraine in 1898, she had held various ministerial positions since the creation of the State of Israel. She passed away in 1978.
● 1976. Luchino Visconti dies. He had been born in 1906, into an aristocratic family. He adhered to Marxism and became a renowned opera regisseur and film director. His fame as a filmmaker came after the Second World War with the earth trembles. I had previously filmed Obsession, one of the first neorealist films. Later titles like White Nightsthe swan song of neo-realism that is Rocco and his brothers, the gatopardo, Abroad, The fall of the gods, death in venice, family group and Ludwig.
● 1992. Attack on the Israeli embassy in Argentina. A car bomb explodes in front of the diplomatic headquarters on Calle Arroyo, in the Retiro neighborhood. The explosion causes 29 deaths and more than 200 injuries. The incident remains unpunished to this day.
● 2012. In Bad Feilnbach, Germany, John Demjanjuk dies at 91. She had immigrated to the United States from the Ukraine after World War II. It was discovered that he had joined the SS and was tried in Israel. Survivors of the Treblinka concentration camp identified him as a sadistic guard nicknamed “Ivan the Terrible.” Demjanjuk denied being the guard. He said that he was taken prisoner by the Germans and forced to collaborate with them. Tried in Israel in 1988, the Prosecutor’s Office alleged that the guard was a Soviet who had joined the German army. He was sentenced to death, but the Israeli Supreme Court acquitted him because it found no evidence to identify him as Ivan. He returned to the United States and was extradited to Germany., where he was tried for the Sobibor camp crimes. He was sentenced to five years. He appealed and was released, confined to a nursing home, where he died.