jueves, junio 18, 2015

Un 18 de junio

1815 Las tropas napoleónicas son derrotadas en la batalla de Waterloo, Napoleón debe renunciar por segunda vez al trono, y será confinado a Santa Helena.
1888 Nace la actriz española Margarita Xirgu.
1929 Nace el sociólogo teutón Jürgen Habermas.
1940 Famoso discurso de Winston Churchill, Their finest hour:
What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over: the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour"


2005 Se nos va Manuel Sadosky. Padre de la computación en la Argentina. Maestro absoluto.


2007 Nos deja el cantautor oriental 
Pablo Estramín.

Poeta delicioso, cantautor profundo. Un tipo que estremece. Oriental conmovedor, de los imprescindibles.
2015 Se presenta Laudatio Si', primera encíclica ecológica de la Iglesia Católica, segunda del papado franciscano.


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