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José Antonio de Gaztañeta e Iturribalzaga

• 897 – Death of Wifred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona (present-day Spain) (b. 840).
• 1303 – Death of Henry of Castile the Senator, Infante of Castile (present-day Spain) (b. 1230).
• 1309 – During the Reconquista, Aragonese forces led by King James II begin an unsuccessful siege of the city of Almería (present-day Spain), under the control of the Emirate of Granada.
• 1531 – Death of Hernán Pérez del Pulgar, Spanish soldier and historian (b. 1451).
• 1656 – Birth of José Antonio de Gaztañeta e Iturribalzaga, Spanish sailor, soldier and naval engineer, innovator and forerunner, who stood out for the scientific approach he brought to the field of shipbuilding (d. 1728).
• 1718 – The Battle of Cape Passaro takes place, when a British naval squadron treacherously attacks a Spanish one, without any prior declaration of war, destroying it almost completely.
• 1801 – Death of Félix María Samaniego, Spanish writer famous for his fables, didactic in tone through their morals (b. 1745).
• 1868 – Birth of Ricardo Rodríguez Elizondo, Costa Rican priest and politician (d. 1918).
• 1916 – Birth of Ángel González Álvarez, Spanish Neo-Thomist philosopher (d. 1991).
• 1924 – A general uprising of the Riffian kabilas breaks out after General Primo de Rivera announced the withdrawal of Spanish troops in Morocco.
• 1930 – In Córdoba (Argentina), the writer and humanist Carlos B. González Pecotche, also known by his literary pseudonym Raumsol, creates the Raumsolic School of Logosophy, forerunner of the Logosophical Foundation.
• 1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish essayist, politician and notary, considered the "Father of the Andalusian Homeland", is executed by firing squad by Falangists (b. 1885).
• 1938 – In Spain, the head of the Government, Juan Negrín, nationalizes Spanish companies.
• 2010 – Death of Enrique Cárdenas de la Peña, Mexican physician, writer, historian and academic (b. 1920).