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Father San Vitores

• 801 – Louis the Pious conquers Barcelona from the Emirate of Córdoba, incorporating it into the Carolingian Empire.
• 1332 – In Vitoria (present-day Spain), the Pact of Voluntary Surrender is signed, by which the Brotherhood of Arriaga (Álava) joins the Crown of Castile.
• 1412 – Death of Ruy González de Clavijo, Spanish writer and traveler (b. 14th century).
• 1416 – Death of Ferdinand of Antequera, King of Aragon (b. 1380).
• 1513 – In North America, Juan Ponce de León and his sailors are the first Europeans to land on the Florida peninsula.
• 1672 – Death of Diego Luis de San Vitores, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1627).
• 1734 – Philip V of Spain cedes by decree to his son Charles all rights to the throne of Naples and Sicily.
• 1767 – In Spain, King Charles III decrees the expulsion of the Jesuits.
• 1773 – Birth of Domingo de Monteverde, Spanish soldier, politician and viceregal administrator (d. 1832).
• 1788 – Birth of Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862).
• 1792 – In the United States, the first dollar based on the Spanish Real de a Ocho is minted.
• 1812 – In Soria (Spain), the French authorities execute four members of the Superior Junta of the Province of Burgos.
• 1867 – In Mexico, Puebla is taken by the army under the command of General Porfirio Díaz.
• 1891 – Death of Benito Soriano Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1827).
• 1903 – In Zaragoza, Madrid and Salamanca (Spain), bloody clashes take place between students and politicians.
• 1906 – Fernández Duro boards the balloon Huracán with the aim of crossing the Mediterranean.
• 1925 – In La Plata (Argentina), the scientist Albert Einstein opens the academic year of the Colegio Nacional Rafael Hernández.
• 1933 – In Santander (Spain), the former summer palace of King Alfonso XIII becomes the International University of La Magdalena, later the Menéndez Pelayo International University.
• 1939 – The United States recognizes as legitimate the military dictatorship of Franco, after France and Great Britain had already done so.
• 1956 – In Spain, Francisco Franco awards the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic to Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (founder of Opus Dei).
• 1959 – In Bolivia, 10,000 miners go on strike.
• 1968 – Spain is readmitted to the European Space Research Organization.
• 1971 – In Spain, the government orders the director of the daily Madrid to pay a fine of 250,000 pesetas for an article entitled «Ni gobierno, ni oposición» ("Neither government nor opposition").
• 1982 – Argentina invades the Malvinas Islands, thus beginning the Malvinas War.
• 1989 – In Cuba, the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana to meet Fidel Castro.
• 2009 – The leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world, meeting in London, decide to create a fund of one trillion dollars to assist the countries in greatest difficulty in the face of the crisis.
• 2013 – Death of Jesús Franco, Spanish film director, actor, producer, screenwriter, composer, editor and director of photography (b. 1930).
• 2017 – In Mocoa (Colombia), 254 people die and more than 200 go missing after a mudslide caused by heavy rains.
• 2023 – Death of Pedro Lavirgen, Spanish tenor (b. 1930).