In the ephemeris of August 15 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1769. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, on the island of Corsica. He seized power in France with the coup of Brumaire 18, in 1799. He was invested as first consul and in 1804 he was proclaimed emperor. The European powers came out to confront him. The Napoleonic wars marked the first years of the 19th century. He was defeated in the Russian campaign and abdicated in 1814. He returned to power for a hundred days until his final defeat at Waterloo. Confined to the island of Santa Elena, he died there in 1821.
● 1954. The longest dictatorship in South America begins: that of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay. Three months earlier he had overthrown President Federico Chaves. Tomás Romero Pereira took office at that time and called for elections. The coup military man competed unopposed and governed with the support of the Colorado Party. Human rights violations and corruption were the hallmarks of the regime. Stroessner fell in February 1989, went into exile in Brazil and died there in 2006.
● 1965. The Beatles star in the first mass concert in rock history. Never before had a group played a stadium when the British band performed in New York. More than 50 thousand people crowd Shea Stadium, a venue dedicated to baseball, as part of the Beatles’ tour of the United States.
● 1972. Members of armed organizations escape from the Rawson prison. A total of 25 escape, who manage to reach the airport and hijack an Austral plane to which six leaders climb. They travel to Chile and President Salvador Allende grants them asylum. They are: Mario Roberto Santucho, Marcos Osatinsky, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Roberto Quieto, Enrique Gorriarán Merlo and Domingo Menna. The other 19, who did not escape, surrender to the authorities and are taken to the Trelew naval base. On August 22, the sailors shoot them: three survivors give an account of what goes down in history as the Trelew Massacre.
● 1981. Boca draws 1 to 1 with Racing in the Bombonera and becomes champion of the Metropolitano. It is the first and only title of Diego Maradona, author of the xeneize goal, in Argentine soccer. That same day, San Lorenzo lost to Argentinos on the Ferro court. The 1 to 0 condemns Boedo’s box, which becomes the first of the big five to go downhill.
● 2004. Hugo Chávez wins with 58 percent of the votes in the recall referendum held in Venezuela. The turnout is around 70 percent. The election was driven by the opposition, based on the provisions of the Constitution amended by Chávez. The referendum marks a political solution to the Venezuelan crisis, which had led to the failed coup in 2002.
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