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Carlos Juan Finlay

• 1398 – Birth of the Marquis of Santillana, Castilian soldier and poet of the Pre-Renaissance (d. 1458).
• 1622 – In Nagasaki (Japan), Pedro de Zúñiga y Velasco, Augustinian missionary, is burned at the stake (b. 1580).
• 1811 – The Zitácuaro Junta is established, the first governing body created by the insurgents in present-day Mexico.
• 1847 – In the course of the War of the American Intervention, the Battle of Padierna takes place between Mexican and American troops.
• 1869 – Birth of Isidro Gomá, cleric and writer, who played a prominent leading role in favor of the rebel side during the Spanish Civil War (d. 1940).
• 1878 – Birth of Manuel Luis Quezon, lawyer, politician and president of the Philippine Commonwealth between 1935 and 1944 (d. 1944).
• 1915 – Death of Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban physician who researched the importance of the transmission of diseases by biological agents, applying it to the eradication of yellow fever in Cuba and Panama (b. 1833).
• 1948 – Foundation of the National Workers' University, an Argentine technical university that will later become the National Technological University.
• 1976 – In Jaén (Spain) more than 25,000 people demonstrate in defense of the olive groves.
• 1989 – In Colombia the government of Virgilio Barco declares war on the Medellín Cartel and establishes extradition by administrative means, the seizure of drug-trafficking assets and preventive detention without judicial charges of persons suspected of belonging to the narco-terrorist organization.
• 2002 – Death of Eduardo Chillida, Spanish sculptor and engraver known for his works in iron and concrete (b. 1908).
• 2015 – Death of Antonio Larreta, Uruguayan actor, writer, and film and theater critic (b. 1922).