Ephemeris of May 24: a day in the life of tower and music

A centenary monument and its history. A poet and artist who already transcends the music and the revolutionary echoes, which announce the Fatherland Day.

The King of Cups and the beginning of an unforgettable stage, while Jazz loses a revolutionary “duke”. The father and the son and a great adventure. Return to the sources the last cry of the fabulous four. Lots of memory for May 24

Acts: 1916 (105 years) Seven years after accepting the proposal of the British citizens of Argentina to create a monument for the centenary of the country, the then known English Tower, and it was erected in what was called the British square, in the Retiro neighborhood, in front of the Miter Railroad station. It measures 60 meters and has 8 floors. It was inaugurated by President Victorino de La Plaza and the British Ambassador. After the Malvinas War, in 1982, the Tower changed its name to Monumental, it is a public walk and while now the square bears the name of the Argentine Air Force

Music: 1941 (age 80) Bob Dylan born in Duluth, Minnesota. One of the most important and influential singer-songwriters comes to the world as Robert Allen Zimmerman. Popularity comes at the beginning of the 60s, with songs like “Blowin ‘in the Wind”. He joined the protest movement and in the middle of the decade shocked folk purists when he began to play and record with electric instruments. In 1966 one of his masterpieces would arrive: the double album Blonde on Blonde. That year, a motorcycle accident took him away from music. He only went on tour again in 1974. In the late 1970s he converted to Christianity. The following years were not successful. At the end of the 80s he had a rebound with the super band The Traveling Wilburys, along with Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lyne, a project that was cut short by the sudden death of Orbison. In 2000, for the song “Things Have Changed” from the movie Wonder Boys, he won the Oscar for best song. Become a legend, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.

History: 1810 (211 years) May week, after the votes of the Cabildo on 22 and 23 where he won the position to depose Viceroy Cisneros, on the 24th the Cabildo would give its counterrevolutionary coup by appointing a board chaired by the deposed viceroy, something that would be specified on the 24th in the morning and that would be inadmissible for supporters of change. The board proposed by the Cabildo was made up, in addition to Cisneros, by a committee made up of Cornelio Saavedra and Juan José Castelli (Creoles) and the priest of Monserrat, Juan Nepomuceno Solá, and the merchant José de los Santos Inchaurregui (Spanish). Immediately, general discontent spread from the Buenos Aires suburbs. Castelli and Saavedra, who had not even been consulted, resigned from being on the board, and Patricians and Arribeños took up arms. Thus began the discussions of the patriots.

Football: 1972 (49 years) INDEPENDENT it won its third Copa Libertadores de América, by beating Universitario de Perú in the final by 2 to 1, with two goals from Eduardo Maglioni (the first leg was 0 to 0). The goal of the “U” was the work of Percy Rojas, who years later would be the figure of “Rojo”. The Avellaneda club had already been champion in 1964 and 1965 and from this third conquest began a stage of 4 series titles until 1975. The campaign of that team, led by Pedro Dellacha, surpassed Rosario Central, Independiente Santa in the first phase. Fe and Atlético Nacional (Colombia) and in the semifinals to Barcelona (Ecuador) and San Pablo (Brazil). On the night of the coronation, Independiente formed with Miguel Santoro; Eduardo Commisso, Francisco Sá, Luis Garisto, Elvio Pavoni; José Pastoriza, Miguel Raimondo, Alejandro Semenewicz; Agustín Balbuena, Eduardo Maglioni and Hugo Saggioratto (later replaced by Dante Mircoli).

Jazz 1974 (age 47) Duke Ellington, one of the greatest musicians in jazz history, dies in New York at the age of 75. Considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, he led a big band from the piano and had Billy Strayhorn as arranger. He became famous at the New York Cotton Club in the 1920s. Author of classics such as “Jeep’s Blues”, “Caravan” and “Satin Doll”, he also did more complex works, such as the suite Such Sweet Thunder, inspired by Shakespearean plays and Black, Brown and Beige, a compendium of the history of blacks in America since slavery. The centenary of his birth, in 1999, saw the award of a special Pulitzer Prize for his contributions.

Cinema 1989 (32 years) It premiered in the US, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade by Steve Spielberg, who completed the trilogy that began in 1981 with The Raiders of the Lost Ark. In this film with Harrison Ford, Sean Connery appears as Indiana’s father, and both resume the search for the Holy Grail. The film won a Special Effec Oscar and was a huge worldwide success. It had a cost of 48 million dollars and raised, 474 million. In Argentina it was released a month later, on June 22, 1989

DAY OF THE OPERATOR AND RADIO OPERATOR: in memory of the first wireless transmission in 1848, when the connection between Washington and Baltimore was produced, with the code that Samuel Morse invented. The day of the women and men of the “silent” task that listens the most. Without them there is no AIR

Billboard: 1969 (52 años) Get Back, el simple of The Beatles y Billy Preston it reached 1 in the United States ranking and stayed there for 5 weeks. This single, which belongs to the album Let It Be, is next to its B-side, “Don’t Let Me Down”, where the fab four share, for the only time, the credit in the presentation of the album with another artist. Preston, already with a career, had been collaborating on keyboards for a few months with the band. The song is produced by George Martin (it was recorded on January 27, 1969 at Apple Studios – three days before the famous concert on the terrace – and is not the same as the one that appeared on the band’s last LP, which was reformulated by Phil Spector. Only this version can be heard again on the Blue Album, which compiles the best songs of 1967-1970. The album was released in the United Kingdom on April 11 of that year, and was 1 in that country for 6 weeks.Meanwhile, it entered the Billboard on May 7, 1969, and was placed at number 12. It was also 1 in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and Australia.

Production: Roberto Blanco Macor from the Asteriscos.TV newsroom

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