Mexican professional wrestler (born 1917)

El Santo

Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, best known by his ring name El Santo, was a Mexican professional wrestler and actor. He is the most famous and iconic of the Mexican professional wrestlers, and has been referred to as one of "the greatest legends in Mexican sports". His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in luchador films and comic books telling fictionalized stories of El Santo fighting for justice. He starred or co-starred in at least 53 movies between 1958 and 1982.

Born

1917

September 23

Died

1984

Era

1910s

Country

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About

El, in brief

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Key dates

1917 Born
1984 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

38 Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.
1122 Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
1338 The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.
1409 The Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.

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The world in 1917

When El arrived

april 12 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
april 16 Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
april 2 American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
april 6 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1917

Augusto Roa Bastos 1917–2005 Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (born 1917) Cleveland Amory 1917–1998 American author and activist (born 1917) David Tomlinson 1917–2000 English actor and comedian (born 1917) Dinah Shore 1917–1994 American actress and singer (born 1916) Dizzy Gillespie 1917–1993 American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (born 1917) Domenico Bartolucci 1917–2013 Italian cardinal and composer (died 2013) Donald Davidson 1917–2003 American philosopher and academic (born 1917) Fannie Lou Hamer 1917–1977 American activist and philanthropist (born 1917) Herbert A. Hauptman 1917–2011 American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

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