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Juan Sebastián Elcano

• 886 – After the death of Muhammad I, his son Al-Mundhir is named sixth emir of Córdoba (present-day Spain).
• 1435 – During the Battle of Ponza (in present-day Italy), the fleet of Alfonso V of Aragon is defeated by a Genoese squadron.
• 1496 – On the island of Hispaniola, Bartholomew Columbus (brother of Christopher Columbus) founds the city of Santo Domingo, the first permanent European city in America and today the capital of the Dominican Republic.
• 1540 – In the Governorate of New Castile (present-day Peru) the city of Santo Domingo de Yungay is founded.
• 1639 – Death of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, New Spanish playwright of the Golden Age (b. 1581).
• 1859 – In Costa Rica, a group of soldiers kidnaps President Juan Rafael Mora Porras and takes him by sea to Guatemala.
• 1897 – At the archaeological site of La Alcudia, in Elche (Spain), the Lady of Elche is discovered.
• 1906 – Near Cabo de Palos (Spain), in the shipwreck of the Sirio, more than two hundred people drown.
• 1909 – In Spain it is agreed to abolish the redemption of military service in exchange for money.
• 1927 – In Spain, the Government forbids women to work from 21:00 to 5:00.
• 1958 – Spain joins the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
• 1960 – The Third Congress of Academies of the Spanish Language, held in Bogotá (Colombia), rejects the expression "América Latina" as incorrect.
• 1976 – In Spain, a Royal Decree is published granting amnesty for political crimes committed during the Franco dictatorship.
• 2018 – In Caracas (Venezuela), a drone attack is carried out against President Nicolás Maduro.