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• 601 – Death of Reccared I, King of Visigothic Hispania, who convened the Third Council of Toledo, at which he abjured Arianism and converted to Catholicism, bringing about religious unification between Visigoths and Hispano-Romans (b. 568).
• 1502 – On the Torregarcía beach, Province of Almería (Spain), the image of the Virgen del Mar appears, probably coming from a ship wrecked or attacked by Barbary pirates.
• 1511 – The Spanish Dominican Friar Pedro de Córdoba delivers the historic Advent Sermon in defense of the natives in the New World.
• 1549 – Death of Margaret of Angoulême, Queen Consort of Navarre (b. 1492).
• 1591 – Death of Pedro Moya, Spanish ecclesiastic, sixth Viceroy of New Spain (b. c. 1527).
• 1598 – In the Kingdom of Chile, the Mapuche annihilate a Spanish column at the Battle of Curalaba, after which a general indigenous uprising begins.
• 1605 – The expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós sets out from Callao (Viceroyalty of Peru); on this voyage he would discover most of the islands of the New Hebrides.
• 1651 – Birth of Tomás Vicente Tosca, Spanish mathematician, cartographer and theologian, one of the creators of the Novatores movement (d. 1723).
• 1781 – Death of Gregorio Mayans (b. 1699), Spanish scholar, jurist, historian, linguist and polymath, representative of the first Spanish Enlightenment.
• 1890 – Buffalo Bill arrives in Barcelona (Spain), where he debuts with his circus displaying his skills during his tour of Europe, though with little success.
• 1907 – In Iquique (northern Chile), the soldier Roberto Silva Renard orders the machine-gunning of the saltpeter workers, together with their children and wives, crowded into the courtyard of the Santa María school (Santa María School massacre).
• 1959 – In Madrid, the American president Dwight D. Eisenhower makes an official visit to Francisco Franco. More than a million people take to the streets to welcome him.
• 1962 – In Argentina, the Academia Porteña del Lunfardo is founded.
• 1987 – In the Philippines, the ferry Doña Paz sinks, overloaded with nearly 7 times its permitted capacity. 4,341 people were killed, in what is considered the greatest peacetime maritime disaster in history.
• 2016 – The United States Department of Justice uncovers the Odebrecht case, detailing bribes to presidents, former presidents and officials of the governments of Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Mozambique, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
• 2012 – In Mexico, the Congress of the Union approves the education reform.
• 2016 – Death of Pepe Sánchez, Colombian television, theater and film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1934).
• 2023 – Death of Cristina Pacheco, Mexican journalist, writer and television presenter (b. 1941).