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Averroes

• 1126 – Birth of Averroes, Andalusi physician and polymath, master of philosophy, mathematics, astronomy and medicine (d. 1198).
• 1182 – In Al-Andalus (present-day Spain), the Mosque of Seville is inaugurated; its construction had begun ten years earlier under the direction of Ahmad Ben Baso.
• 1204 – Birth of Henry I, King of Castile (d. 1217).
• 1527 – Birth of Abraham Ortelius, Flemish geographer and cartographer in the service of Philip II (d. 1598).
• 1573 – Captain Juan de Garay sets out from Asunción (present-day Paraguay) southward with an expedition of 9 Spaniards and 75 "young men born of these lands". The following year he would found Santa Fe and six years later Buenos Aires.
• 1578 – Birth of Philip III, King of Spain and Portugal between 1598 and 1621 (d. 1621).
• 1748 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru (present-day Argentina), the Spaniard Rafael de Aguiar founds San Nicolás de los Arroyos.
• 1815 – The Combat of Puesto del Marqués takes place, as part of the Argentine War of Independence.
• 1850 – In Chile, the liberal Francisco Bilbao and other intellectuals found the Society of Equality.
• 1868 – In Guanabacoa (Cuba), the serial El Álbum publishes the first verses of José Martí, «A Micaela», dedicated to the wife of Rafael María de Mendive.
• 1872 – At Cayo Redondo (Cuba), the troops of Vicente García fight against the Spanish troops.
• 1890 – The International Union of American Countries is founded in the United States; from 1948 it will be called the OAS (Organization of American States).
• 1865 – Death of Rafael Carrera y Turcios, soldier, politician and President of Guatemala (b. 1814).
• 1915 – Death of Luis Coloma, Spanish writer, journalist and Jesuit (b. 1851).
• 1927 – In Mexico City, the Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella founds the Revista Revolucionaria Americana.
• 1931 – The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed after the renunciation and departure into exile of Alfonso XIII.
• 1931 – The first Day of the Americas is celebrated throughout the American continent, as a symbol of sovereignty and union in a continental community.
• 1936 – In Barcelona (Spain), the theater group "La Barraca", created by Federico García Lorca, gives its last performance.
• 1955 – In Lérida (Spain), the Bronze Age archaeological site of Genó is discovered.
• 1958 – In the jungle of the Sierra Maestra (the easternmost province of Cuba), Fidel Castro makes his first address on Radio Rebelde.
• 1985 – In Peru, Alan García is elected president at the age of 35, becoming the youngest president in the country's history.
• 2002 – In Caracas (Venezuela), President Hugo Chávez resumes the presidency in the early hours, after having been overthrown in a failed coup d'état three days earlier.
• 2013 – In Venezuela, presidential elections are held for the 2013-2019 term to choose the successor of the late President Hugo Chávez; Nicolás Maduro is elected.
• 2015 – In Washington DC (United States), the National Security Council adopts President Barack Obama's decision to remove Cuba from the list of State sponsors of terrorism.
• 2017 – Death of Martín Elías, Colombian singer-songwriter, part of the generation of musicians who made up the so-called New Wave of Vallenato (b. 1990).