Ephemeris December 10: what happened on a day like today?

Between the ephemeris most outstanding of December 10, the assumption of several former presidents of the Nation stands out. Among them stands out the return of democracy after the last military dictatorship with the arrival of Raúl Alfonsín; the victory of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first female president elected through popular vote and the first to be reelected; as well as that of Mauricio Macri, the first to reach the Casa Rosada through a second ballot.

The arrival of Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency on December 10, 1999 is also remembered, with the characteristic of not having finished his term: he resigned on December 21, 2001.

In addition, December 10, but of 2019, was the date on which Alberto Fernandez he received the presidential baton from Macri, whom he defeated in the first round by obtaining 48.24% of the votes against 40.28% of the candidate of Together for Change. When exceeding 45%, it was not necessary to carry out a ballot due to the rules established by the constitutional reform of 1994.

In the same sense, the December 10 It also commemorates the Nobel Prize in Chemistry received by Luis Federico Leloir in 1970 thanks to the discovery of sugar nucleotides and their importance in the formation of carbohydrates. It was the second Nobel Prize in science received by an Argentine (the previous one was Bernardo Houssay, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947).

After Leloir, 10 years later the Argentine was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel, at the same time that the country was going through the last and bloodiest dictatorship in its history. The architect took the prize for being “one of the Argentines who have brought a bit of light to a deep night through a policy of non-violence”.

The December 10 In 1984, the Argentine was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Cesar Milstein together with the German GJ Kohler and the British Niels K. Jerne for their work on immunology and monoclonal antibodies. Although he lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, in 1961 he returned to the country to direct the Division of Molecular Biology of the National Institute of Microbiology, although the following year he would return to the Old Continent.

In tribute to the arrival of Alfonsín to the presidency, democratically elected by the Argentine people after leaving behind the coups d’état suffered since 1930, Argentina celebrates the Day of the Restoration of Democracy. The event it was created after the enactment of Law 26,323, created “in order to promote, throughout the national territory, democratic values ​​and highlight their historical, political and social significance”.

At the same time, some ephemeris As the International Human Rights Day and the International Animal Rights Day. Both were established in 1948 after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

As explained by the UN, the Declaration is “a historical document that proclaims the inalienable rights that correspond to every person as a human being, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin , economic position, birth or any other condition”.

ephemeris December 10

• International Human Rights Day.
• International Animal Rights Day
• Social Worker’s Day (Argentina)
• Day of the Restoration of Democracy
• 1520 – Martin Luther publicly burns the papal bull urging him to repent.
• 1825 – The war between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and Brazil begins.
• 1830 – American poet Emily Dickinson is born.
• 1832 – The Board of Representatives accepts the resignation of the Governor and Captain General of Buenos Aires Juan Manuel de Rosas. Two days later, he would appoint General Juan Ramón González Balcarce to the post.
• 1860 – For the first time in history women are granted the vote. It was in Wyoming (United States).
• 1896 – Alfred Nobel dies at the age of 63.
• 1898 – Through the Treaty of Paris, Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the US and guarantees the independence of Cuba.
• 1901 – The King of Sweden awards the first Nobel Prizes.
• 1903 – Pierre and Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies on radioactivity.
• 1907 – British writer Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1911 – Marie Curie receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium.
• 1921 – Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 1923 – The architect Clorindo Testa is born.
• 1928 – Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh dies.
• 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright, dies.
• 1948 – The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaims the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1950 – Dr. Ralph Bunche is the first black American to receive a Nobel Prize.
• 1950 – Bertrand Russell receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1950 – Bertrand Russell receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1953 – Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm and General Marshall, in Oslo, the Peace Prize.
• 1954 – American writer Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1956 – The Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1957 – Albert Camus receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1960 – British actor Kenneth Branagh is born.
• 1964 – Reverend Martin Luther King becomes the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1967 – Miguel Angel Asturias receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1967 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter, dies.
• 1968 – Theologian Karl Barth dies.
• 1969 – Irish writer Samuel Beckett receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1970 – Luis Leloir receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1971 – Pablo Neruda receives the Nobel Prize for Literature and Willy Brandt, for Peace.
• 1972 – Marcos Di Palma, Argentine motorist, is born.
• 1973 – Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975 – Iñaki Urlezaga, Argentine dancer is born.
• 1977 – Amnesty International receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1977 – Azucena Villaflor, one of the thirteen founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association, is kidnapped. She was kidnapped from her home, Villa Domínico, and taken to the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA), where she was subjected to torture and thrown into the sea in one of the so-called “transfers” of detainees.
• 1980 – The architect Adolfo Perez Esquivel is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1982 – Gabriel García Márquez receives the Nobel Prize for Literature. That of La Paz is shared by the Mexican Alfonso García Robles and the Swedish Alva Myrdal.
• 1983 – Raúl Alfonsín assumes the Argentine presidency.
• 1983 – The Peruvian city of Cuzco and the Inca sanctuary of Machu Picchu are declared cultural assets of Humanity by UNESCO.
• 1983 – Lech Walesa receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1984 – Argentine César Milstein and German GJ Kohler share the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
• 1984 – Argentine César Milstein and German GJ Kohler share the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
• 1986 – A group of American astronomers discover seven new galaxies.
• 1988 – The Secretary General of the UN, Javier Perez de Cuellar, receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1988 – The Secretary General of the UN, Javier Perez de Cuellar, receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1990 – Octavio Paz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1991 – The heads of state of the European Community reach the Netherlands a historic agreement on the Treaty of European Union, with exceptions for Great Britain.
• 1993 – Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
• 1994 – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1998 – The actress Berta Singerman dies (she was born in Russia, but developed her career in Argentina).
• 1999 – Fernando de la Rúa assumes the Argentine presidency.
• 2004 – Nito Veiga, Argentine soccer player and coach, dies.
• 2005 – Richard Pryor, American actor, dies.
• 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean soldier, dictator between 1973 and 1990, dies.
• 2007 – Cristina Fernández assumes the presidency. She is the first female Argentine president elected by popular vote.
• 2010 – The Peruvian writer and politician Mario Vargas Llosa receives the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm.
• 2011 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner once again assumes the presidency of Argentina.
• 2015 – Mauricio Macri assumes the presidency of Argentina.
• 2016 – Rolando Washington Goyaud, Argentine scientific researcher, journalist and writer, specialized in history and museology, dies.
• 2019 – Alberto Fernández assumes the presidency and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the vice-presidency of the Argentine Republic after having defeated Mauricio Macri in the first round in the October 27 elections.

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