Jorge Eliécer Gaitán ( January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 342 days remaining, 343 in leap years. Events 1510 - Henry VIII of England, 18, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself. 1533 - Anne Boleyn, mistress... January 23, 1903 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css; /**/ 1903 From Wikipedia 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since... 1903 - April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). There are 266 days remaining. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans). 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies... April 9, 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution. January 4... 1948) was a politician and a leader of a Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... populist movement in For other uses see Columbia. The Republic of Colombia is a country in north-western South America. It is bound to the north and north-west by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, and to the west by Panama... Colombia, and member of the Politics of Colombia Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Colombian political parties | Liberal parties ... Liberal Party. He was assassinated during his campaign for List of Heads of State (Presidents etc.) of the Republic of Colombia and its precursor states Unless otherwise stated, the incumbent is President The Republic of Greater Colombia Republic of New Granada The Granadine Confederation The United States of Colombia Republic of Colombia See also Politics of Colombia president lists... President in 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution. January 4... 1948.

Gaitán was from a poor background, but worked through universities in Colombia and The Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries of San... Italy to attain a degree in law, and become a professor at the The Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University of Colombia) is the main university of Colombia. Several campuses across the country conform to this university system - the main campus is in Bogotá; Medellín and other cities also have campuses. This University plans to become a real research institution; it is... National University of Colombia. From there he became a popular leader of the left-wing movement, gaining nationwide popularity following a banana workers' strike in Categories: Departments of Colombia | Stub ... Magdalena in 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-May January 6- 7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan February - Kurume University... 1928, in which strikers were fired upon by the army. It is speculated that he would likely have been elected President had he not been assassinated.

Gaitán was assassinated during the 9th Pan-American Conference, which was being led by The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. History George Washington signed a congressional bill into law on July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28), creating an executive Department... U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall George Catlett Marshall ( December 31, 1880– October 16, 1959), was an American military leader and statesman best remembered for his leadership in the Allied victory in World War II and for his work establishing the post-war reconstruction effort for Europe, which became known as the... George Marshall, a meeting which led to a pledge by members to fight Communism is a term that can refer to one of several things: a social and economic system, an ideology which supports that system, or a political movement that wishes to implement that system. As a theoretical social and economic system, communism would be a type of egalitarian society with no... communism in the The Americas (sometimes referred to as America) is the area including the land mass located between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, generally divided into North America and South America. The term also usually includes the Caribbean, the islands in and around the Greenland, though not Iceland, for cultural... Americas, as well as the creation of the The Organization of American States (OAS; OEA in the other three official languages) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA. Its members are the 35 independent nations of the Americas. History The notion of closer hemispheric union in the American continent was first put forward by the... Organization of American States.

Another major event in the country's capital Bogota is also a city in New Jersey, see Bogota, New Jersey. Downtown Bogotá from Monserrate Bogotá (known officially in Spanish as Bogotá D.C. (Distrito Capital), formerly as Santafé de Bogotá D.C.) is a city of 8.0 million people and the capital... Bogotá was taking place: a Latin American Youth Congress, one of whose attendees was a young Cuban President Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has ruled Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he helped overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and turn Cuba into the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere. He held the title of premier... Fidel Castro. The assassination provoked a violent riot known as the Bogotazo (loose translation: the sack of Bogotá, or shaking of Bogotá), and a further ten years of violence during which at least 300,000 people died (a period known as la violencia). Some writers say that this event influenced Castro's views about the viability of an electoral route for political change.

Gaitán's murderer, Juan Roa Sierra, was killed by the mob, and his motivations were never known.

A popular story, perhaps apocryphal, relates that during a debate with the Conservative candidate for president, Gaitán asked him how he made his living. "From the land," the other candidate replied.
"Ah, and how did you get this land?" asked Gaitán.
"I inherited it from my father!"
"And where did he get it from?"
"He inherited it from his father!"
The question is repeated once or twice more, and then the Conservative candidate concedes, "We took it from the Indians".
Gaitán's reply was, "Well, we want to do the opposite: we want to give the land back to the Indians". (Gaitán advocated Land reform (also agrarian reform) is the government-initiated or government-backed transfer of ownership of (or tenure in) agricultural land. The term most often refers to transfer from ownership by a relatively small number of wealthy (or noble) owners with extensive land holdings (e.g. plantations, large ranches, or... land reform).