Cecilia Caballero Blanco (30 September 1913 – 13 August 2019) was the widow of the 24th President of Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.
Caballero Blanco was born on 30 September 1913 in Bogotá. She married Alfonso López Michelsen on 23 October 1938. They had three children: Alfonso, Juan Manuel, and Felipe.
Caballero Blanco turned 100 in September 2013. She died on 13 August 2019 in Bogotá at the age of 105.
Alfonso López Michelsen
Alfonso López Michelsen (30 June 1913 – 11 July 2007) was the 24th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. López was the son of former two time president of Colombia, Alfonso López Pumarejo. He was born and raised in Bogotá.
In 1974, López was selected by the Liberal Party in as their candidate for president after defeating former president Carlos Lleras Restrepo in the party presidential primaries. He won the general election by a large margin against the Conservative Party candidate Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and the ANAPO candidate, María Eugenia Rojas.
In his inaugural speech on August 7, 1974, López was mostly remembered for calling the border disputed area in the Gulf of Venezuela by its native name "Gulf of Coquibacoa" given by the wayuus. On September 14, 1977 in Bogotá a bloody riot started in all sections of the city, the riot was called The National Civic Strike. The two days riot left a death toll of 80 people, and 2000 people injured.
Upon the end of his term in 1978, he again became the leader of Liberal Party. He ran for president again in 1982, but was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate, Belisario Betancur.
Lopez Michelsen died in Bogotá on July 11, 2007 after suffering a heart attack.
President of Colombia
The President of the Republic of Colombia () is the head of state and head of government of Colombia.
The office of president was established upon the ratification of the Constitution of 1819, by the Congress of Angostura, convened in December 1819, when Colombia was ""la Gran Colombia"". The first president, General Simón Bolívar, took office in 1819. His position, initially self-proclaimed, was ratified by Congress.
The current president of the Republic of Colombia is Iván Duque Márquez, who took office on 7 August 2018.
As of , there are five living former presidents:
The most recent death of a former president was that of Belisario Betancur (1982–1986) on ; he was 95 years old.
Nydia Quintero Turbay
Nydia Quintero Turbay (born 28 August 1932) is a Colombian philanthropist and the ex-wife of the 25th President of Colombia, Julio César Turbay Ayala, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 when they were still married.
She is the President of "Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia", a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the condition of impoverished Colombian families through educational and nutritional programs for children, the disabled and the poor.
Gustavo Balcázar Monzón
Gustavo Balcázar Monzón (born 10 August 1927) is a Colombian lawyer and retired politician.
Balcázar Monzón is a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as Member of both the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, presiding over both chambers of Congress. He also served in the administrations of President Guillermo León Valencia as the 48th Governor of Valle del Cauca, and as the 16th Minister of Agriculture, and in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala as the 18th Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, and Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria.
Émile Idée
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Idée is a five-time winner of the Critérium International, a record shared with Raymond Poulidor and Jens Voigt. He finished in second place in the 1948 Paris–Roubaix.
Chris Wallace
Christopher W. Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is an American television anchor and political commentator. He is the host of the Fox Broadcasting Company/Fox News Channel program "Fox News Sunday".
Wallace has won three Emmy Awards and the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award. Wallace has been with Fox News since 2003. As a previous moderator of "Meet the Press" on NBC, Wallace is the only person to date to have served as host/moderator of more than one of the major Sunday morning political talk shows.
French Stewart
Milton French-Stewart (born February 20, 1964), known professionally as French Stewart, is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" and for his role as Chef Rudy on the sitcom "Mom".
Xiaolongbao
Xiaolongbao (小笼包) are small steamed buns, originally from the Jiangnian region in China, especially connected to Shanghai and Wuxi. Traditionally they are filled with pork, but this can be mixed with other things, like crab meat and roe (eggs). Modern versions of these buns are often contain other meats, seafood or vegetarian fillings.
The buns are wrapped in a dough, which sometimes gets bigger by rising (called a "leavened" dough), or they're wrapped in a dough which doesn't do this (called an "unleavened" dough). The buns are then steamed over boiling water to cook them.
It is possible to buy deep frozen Xiaolongbao worldwide, normally in special shops or supermarkets which sell ingredients for Chinese cooking.List of Ekushey Padak winners in Arts
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Penny Chenery
Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery Tweedy (January 27, 1922 – September 16, 2017) was an American sportswoman. She was born in New Rochelle, New York. Chenery bred and raced Secretariat, the 1973 winner of the Triple Crown. In addition to breeding Secretariat, Chenery bred Saratoga Dew, who became the first New York-bred horse to ever win an Eclipse Award when the filly was voted the 1992 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.
In March 2011, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia awarded Chenery an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Chenery died on September 16, 2017 at her home in Boulder, Colorado from complications from a stroke at the age of 95.
John Tilley
John Tilley (1571 - 1621) was a Mayflower passenger and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. He died during his first winter in America.
Secretariat (horse)
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. He was born in Caroline County, Virginia.
His record-breaking win in the Belmont Stakes, where he left the field 31 lengths behind him, is widely known as one of the greatest races of all time. He was breaded and owned by Penny Chenery.
During his racing career, he won five Eclipse Awards, including Horse of the Year honors at ages two and three. He was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1974.
In the List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Secretariat is second only to Man o' War (racing career 1919–1920), who also was a large chestnut colt given the nickname "Big Red".
Secretariat was euthanized after suffering from laminitis, a hoof disease, at a farm in Paris, Kentucky on October 4, 1989 at the age of 19.
Eugenio Bersellini
Eugenio Bersellini (10 June 1936 – 17 September 2017) was an Italian football player and manager. He was born in Borgo Val di Taro, Kingdom of Italy. He was known for playing with Brescia Calcio, Monza and Lecce. He managed Como, Internazionale and Torino.
Bersellini died on 17 September 2017 in Prato, Italy of pneumonia at the age of 81.
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