1919 -TRAGIC WEEK. The riots and the repression remembered as the Tragic Week began in Buenos Aires, which cost the lives of hundreds of workers and thousands of injured and arrested. The conflict was unleashed by a long strike organized by anarchists at the Talleres Vasena metallurgical factory to demand better working conditions. The calculations of the time maintain that there were about 700 deaths. There were no official figures.
1934 – FLASH GORDON. The American press agency King Features Syndicate publishes as a Sunday page the first Flash Gordon comic, created by Alex Raymond to compete with the adventures of Buck Rogers. Flash Gordon, adapted for television and film, was an icon of science fiction until it was displaced by the Star Wars film saga, which began in 1977.
1943 – NICOLA TESLA. At the age of 86, Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla, one of the great inventors of the 20th century, dies in New York City. Tesla is
famous for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply, electric motor, and radio transmissions. He also developed one of the first wireless remote control systems.
1952 – VALERIE LYNCH. The singer-songwriter Valeria Lynch (María Cristina Lancelotti), winner of four Martín Fierro awards, two Carlos Gardel awards, a Latin Grammy and a Konex, among other awards, is born in Buenos Aires. She has recorded more than 35 albums. She has worked on a dozen television shows and acted in two movies.
1964 – CESAREO ONZARI. At the age of 60, former soccer player Cesáreo Onzari, author of the first Olympic goal in soccer history, dies in Buenos Aires. He scored it for the Argentine team on October 2, 1924 against Uruguay, which was the Olympic champion and from there the name of the goal arose. Onzari, who played for Huracán and Boca Juniors, scored 117 goals throughout his career.
1964 – NICOLAS CAGE. The actor and film producer Nicolas Cage (Nicolas Kim Coppola), winner of an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his role in the film Leaving Las Vegas, is born in the American city of Long Beach.
1978 – EMILIO M. PALMA. At the Esperanza Base of the Argentine Army, Emilio Marcos Palma was born, the first person born on the Antarctic continent and in the southernmost place in the world. For this he is registered in the Guinness Book of Records. He is the son of the then head of the base, Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Emilio Palma, and María Silvia Morello, who was seven months pregnant when the couple was transferred to the Antarctic continent.
1984 – ALFRED KASTLER. French physicist and scientist Alfred Kastler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966, dies at the age of 81 in the town of Bandol, in southeastern France. His research in quantum mechanics and optics led to the invention of the laser beam .
1985 -LEWIS HAMILTON. Born in the small town of Stevenage (Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) is the British car driver Lewis Hamilton, who has won seven Formula 1 world championships and is the most successful in the history of that sport along with the German Michael Schumacher.
2007 – FERNANDO GAGO. Midfielder Fernando Gago makes his debut for Spanish Real Madrid, who had bought his pass to Boca Juniors. It was in the match that the “merengue” team lost 2-0 on their visit to Deportivo La Coruña. Gago played 113 games with Real Madrid, until in 2011 he was transferred to Italian Roma. He currently directs Racing Club de Avellaneda.
2013 – LIONEL MESSI. Argentine star Lionel Messi, who shone in Spanish Barcelona, receives his fourth consecutive Ballon d’Or, becoming the most winning footballer in the history of the trophy established by the French magazine France Football and the International Association of Football Federations. Messi, who now plays for Paris Saint Germain in France, has won seven trophies from the highest authority in football.
2015 – CHARLIE HEBDO. Two masked men with assault rifles and other weapons shoot twelve people dead and injure eleven others at the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The attack was claimed by the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda. The brothers Said and Chérif Kouachi, accused of the attack, were killed in a confrontation with the police on January 9, 2015.
