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2023 – DAY OF THE RURAL DOCTOR. Every 4th of July the Day of the Rural Doctor is celebrated in Argentina. The date was chosen to commemorate the birth of Dr. Esteban Laureano Maradona.
Doctor Esteban Laureano Maradona. (The nation)
Esteban Laureano Maradona was born in 1895 in Esperanza, Santa Fe province. Graduated as a doctor, he worked for half a century in the town of Estanislao del Campo, in deep Formosa.
He founded a rural school and wrote books on flora, fauna and anthropology. He left Formosa in 1986, already turning 90, and settled in Rosario, where he died on January 14, 1995, a few months before his hundredth birthday.
Ephemeris: systematization of the La Cañada stream
La Cañada is a stream that rises in La Lagunilla to the southwest of the city and flows into the Suquía River. In 1623 a parapet was built to contain the flooding of that thread of water that became raging with the rains. With a seven kilometer route, it crosses the entire center of the city and several neighborhoods like a scar.
On January 31, 1671, a powerful flood that caused numerous damage prompted the construction of another, wider and stronger retaining wall, made of lime and boulder. The work was by Andrés Jiménez de Lorca, ordered by Ángel de Peredo, governor of Córdoba del Tucumán. But it had to be rebuilt numerous times.
The well-known “calicanto” consisted of walls of rounded pebbles welded with lime. (FAUD Library)
The last great flood occurred on January 15, 1939 and flooded the streets up to Plaza San Martín. From the old calicanto, which remained until 1944, at the request of the sculptor Miguel Angel Budini to the then governor Juan Ignacio San Martín, a fragment is preserved. It is in the square of boulevard San Juan and La Cañada.
The first bridge was built in 1796, on 27 de Abril street, made of concrete, stone and brick. The drains of the houses located on the coasts gave to the channel.
In 1623, the authorities commissioned the construction of a parapet to contain the flooding of the stream. (Sebastián Cánepa / Aguas Cordoba)
In 1944 the systematization begins. The first section was carried out between that year and 1948, under the administration of Donato Latella Frías. With a width of 15 meters and 18 bridges, it spanned 2,500 meters.
The second section was completed between 1983 and 1991 (municipal management by Ramón Mestre) and covered 700 meters; added three bridges. The third, placed between 1991 and 1999, added 3,800 meters to the existing work, with five new bridges. The last section is not made of concrete but rather the ravines are covered, among other elements, by pebble stone.
The first part of the final construction was completed between 1944 and 1948. (FAUD Library)
More ephemeris
1926 – ALFREDO DI STEFANO. Striker Alfredo Di Stéfano, one of the best soccer players of all time, was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas. He shone at River Plate, at Millonarios de Colombia and at Spanish Real Madrid. He played 966 games and scored 774 goals. As a coach, he was champion with River and with Boca Juniors.
Alfredo Di Stefano.
1927 – GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA. Actress Gina Lollobrigida (Luigina Lollobrigida) is born in the Italian municipality of Subiaco. She is a movie diva who filmed more than 60 films and won five David de Donatello awards, a Golden Globe. She is remembered with a star on the Walk of Fame for Hollywood.
1934 – MARIE CURIE. At the age of 66, Marie Curie (Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie), the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive it twice in different specialties ( Physics and chemistry). She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first academic at the University of Paris.
DOUBLE. Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize in 1903, with her husband, and in 1911, as the only winner.
1996 – KNOW BHATIA. Indian computer programmer Sabeer Bhatia, 27, launches the Hotmail.com website, the first free email, which he co-designed with American colleague Jack Smith. Both had worked at Apple Computer.
1976 – PRIESTS MURDERED. A “task group” of the civic-military dictatorship assassinates three priests and two seminarians in the parish of San Patricio in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano in the so-called “massacre of the Pallotino priests.”
1992 – ASTOR PIAZZOLLA. At the age of 71, the bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla, considered one of the most important musicians of the 20th century and one of the most important figures in the history of tango, dies in Buenos Aires.
Astor Piazzolla
1993 – ARGENTINE CHAMPION. Under the technical direction of Alfio Basile, the Argentine team obtained its fourteenth and last Copa América, that of Ecuador 1993, by beating Mexico 2-1 in the final in Guayaquil. The two Argentine goals were scored by Gabriel Batistuta, the second all-time top scorer for the “Albiceleste” team with 54 goals.
1999 – MARTIN PALERMO. Forward Martín Palermo, top scorer in the history of Boca Juniors, missed three consecutive penalties in favor of Argentina in the 3-0 defeat against Colombia in a 1999 Copa América match played at the Ubaldo Aquino stadium in the Paraguayan city of Luque .
2004 – CARLOS BIANCHI. Carlos Bianchi’s second cycle as coach of Boca Juniors ends, with which in his first stage he had won three Copa Libertadores de América, two Intercontinental Cups and four tournaments in the Argentine First Division.
2023 – POLITICAL EXPRESSIONS. The National Day of Coexistence and Plurality of Political Expressions is celebrated in commemoration of the 1974 date of the message pronounced by the radical leader Ricardo Balbín at the farewell to General Juan Domingo Perón, who died three days earlier when he was the head of State.
Other ephemeris
1811.- First session of the Chilean Congress, meeting in Santiago.
1870.- The regent of Spain, Francisco Serrano, signs the law that gradually declares free the black slaves in Cuba.
1904.- General Rafael Reyes Prieto is proclaimed president of Colombia in the final count of the vote of the Great Electoral Council, in which the also conservative General Joaquín Fernando Vélez prevails by a narrow margin.
1910.- Russo-Japanese agreement whereby Japan allows Russia to act in Manchuria and the Russians refrain from the Japanese invasion of Korea.
1919.- The Peruvian president, José Pardo y Barrera, is overthrown by a coup d’état in the final stretch of his mandate and after holding elections. He provisionally replaces Augusto B. Leguía.
1941.- Josio Broz Tito organizes the partisan resistance in Yugoslavia against the invading Nazi Germany.
1946.- The Philippines proclaims its independence from the United States.
1971.- The German Michael Hart, inventor of the electronic book, begins his free electronic book library project on the network “Project Gutenberg” with the digitization of the US Declaration of Independence.
1976.- The PRI member José López Portillo wins the presidential elections in Mexico, with 91.9% of the votes, as the sole candidate of the PRI coalition, the PPS socialists and the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (PARM).
1979.- The Algerian government of Chadli Benyedid frees former president Ahmed Ben Bella, who ruled the first three years since independence and had been imprisoned since 1965.
1982.- The Dominican president, Silvestre Antonio Guzmán, commits suicide in the National Palace days before the end of his term.
– Miguel de la Madrid, candidate of the PRI, PPS and PARM coalition, wins the presidential elections in Mexico, with 70.9% of the vote.
1989.- Inaugural session of the two chambers of the new Polish Parliament, the Congress of Deputies and the Senate.
1991.- The National Constituent Assembly of Colombia promulgates a new Constitution, which replaces the 1986 one.
– Spain and Morocco sign the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborhood and Cooperation between both countries in Rabat
1992.- The Prince of Asturias, Felipe de Borbón, chairs the commemorative naval concentration of the V Centenary of the Discovery of America in New York.
1997.- The unmanned spacecraft “Mars Pathfinder” lands on Mars and offers the first images of the planet’s surface after a space journey of 500 million kilometers.
1999.- The Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, pardons 3,343 Islamist prisoners without blood crimes before Parliament debates the Law of Civil Harmony for National Reconciliation.
2001.- Judge Jorge Urso prosecutes and orders preventive detention against former Argentine president Carlos Menem for considering him head of an “illicit association” that illegally sold weapons to Ecuador and Croatia.
2002.- Augusto Pinochet resigns from his seat as senator for life after his “insanity” was described as “incurable” by the Chilean Supreme Court and he was dismissed from the charges for violation of human rights in the case of the “Caravan of death” (1973).
2012.- The European Center for Particle Physics announces the discovery of the “Higgs boson”, one of the pillars of the Standard Model of modern physics.
2014.- The Russian Parliament ratifies the cancellation of 90% of Cuba’s debt with the extinct Soviet Union, some 31.7 billion dollars, and defers the remaining 3.5 billion to 10 years.
2017.- North Korea successfully launches its first intercontinental missile from North Pyongan province, which travels approximately 930 kilometers.
2021.- Elisa Loncón, an indigenous Mapuche, is elected president of the constituent convention that will draft the new Constitution of Chile.
BIRTHS
1804.- Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer, author of “The Scarlet Letter”.
1807.- Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italian unity.
1917.- Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez, “Manolete”, Spanish bullfighter.
1926.- Alfredo Di Stéfano, Spanish-Argentine soccer player.
1927.- Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress.
1937.- Sonia Haraldsen, Queen of Norway.
1952.- Álvaro Uribe, former president of Colombia.
DEATHS
1541.- Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conqueror.
1826.- Thomas Jefferson, editor of the US Declaration of Independence and third president of the country.
1826.- John Adams, second president of the United States.
2003.- Barry White, American singer.
2008.- Jesse Helms, former US senator.
Source: own and agencies.
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