Among the Latinas that you didn’t know were Latina is Linda Christian, the first Bond girl. That’s Bond, as in James Bond. Christian, whose given name was Blanca Rosa Welter, was born in Tampico, Mexico on November 13, 1923. Her life story could have been written by an imaginative screenwriter. Christian’s aspiration as a youth was to become a… Continue reading The First Bond Girl was Latina!
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Happy Birthday to Rene Geronimo Favaloro 1923
July 14, 1923 was the birthday of Rene Geronimo Favaloro, a pioneering heart surgeon, health care provider, and humanitarian. Favaloro graduated from medical school in Argentina, and completed post graduate studies in Buenos Aires and the Cleveland Clinic. Favaloro performed the world’s first documented heart bypass surgery in 1972. His great heart was undone by… Continue reading Happy Birthday to Rene Geronimo Favaloro 1923
Ernesto Antonio “Tito” Puente, Grammy Winner
April 20, 1923 is the birthday of Puerto Rican musician Ernesto Antonio Puente, affectionately known as Tito Puente (1923-2000). He was born in New York to Puerto Rican parents. He studied piano and percussion as a child, and began playing professionally in his teens. He was drafted into the Navy during World War II, and… Continue reading Ernesto Antonio “Tito” Puente, Grammy Winner
Meyer v. Nebraska and the struggle for bilingual education 1923
On May 25, 1920, schoolteacher Robert T. Meyer taught one of his fourth-grade pupils to read the Bible in the German language. (There goes the neighborhood!) An attorney from Hamilton County learned of the highly subversive incident, and charged the teacher with shockingly violating a Nebraska law that prohibited teaching foreign languages to elementary school pupils. Meyer… Continue reading Meyer v. Nebraska and the struggle for bilingual education 1923