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Juan Domingo Perón

• 612 – In Visigothic Hispania, the law of King Sisebut comes into force forbidding Jews to own Christian slaves or to convert Christians to Judaism.
• 1109 – Death of Alfonso VI of León, King of León (present-day Spain) (b. 1040).
• 1321 – Death of María de Molina, Queen of Castile (present-day Spain) between 1284 and 1295 (b. 1264).
• 1431 – At Atarfe (present-day Spain), the troops of John II of Castile defeat the Nasrid armies of Granada, led by King Muhammad IX, in what became known as the Battle of La Higueruela.
• 1723 – Birth of Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and politician, adviser to King Charles III of Spain (d. 1802).
• 1823 – The Constituent Congress of the United Provinces of Central America approves a declaration establishing the absolute independence of the Central American territory.
• 1853 – The first postage stamp is sold in Chile.
• 1874 – Bolivia and Chile sign the second Boundary Treaty, replacing the one signed in 1866. Chile renounces the territories in the zone between the 24th and 25th parallels. In exchange the government of Bolivia undertakes not to raise taxes on saltpeter until 1899.
• 1898 – At Santiago de Cuba (in the course of the Spanish–American War) 15,000 Americans and 4,000 Cuban pro-independence guerrillas defeat 800 Spaniards at the Battle of the San Juan Heights; 2,000 Cubans and 600 Spaniards die.
• 1966 – In the Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer assumes the presidency.
• 1974 – Death of Juan Domingo Perón, three times elected president of Argentina; he is succeeded by his wife, Vice President María Estela Martínez de Perón, his widow.
• 2012 – In Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, candidate of the Commitment to Mexico coalition, is elected president of Mexico.
• 2014 – In Panama, Juan Carlos Varela takes office as constitutional president.
• 2018 – In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, is elected President of Mexico, the first time in the History of Mexico that a left-wing candidate is elected president.
• 2019 – Laurentino Cortizo is sworn in as President of Panama for the 2019–2024 term.
• 2020 – The Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada comes into force.