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Ernest Hemingway

• 1489 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain), the city of Motril (Granada) surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1502 – On Hispaniola, the town of Santo Domingo (the first founded by Europeans in America) is razed by a violent hurricane that sinks 29 ships and kills more than 500 people. Christopher Columbus, who was on his fourth voyage, tried to warn Governor Nicolás de Ovando of the imminent danger, but the latter ignored him and forbade him to land.
• 1520 – Troops of Hernán Cortés fight the Mexica people of Calacoaya, in Cortés's second military action in his campaign for the Conquest of Mexico.
• 1600 – At the Battle of Nieuwpoort (in the course of the War of Flanders), forces of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and English forces defeat the tercios of the Spanish Empire for the first time.
• 1817 – During the Portuguese–Brazilian invasion, in the Misiones Province, Argentine troops defeat the Portuguese at the Battle of Apóstoles.
• 1839 – In the Caribbean Sea, 32 km from Cuba, 53 African slaves seize the ship La Amistad, kill the captain and the cook, and force the survivors to sail them to Africa, but they are deceived and taken to the American coast.
• 1841 – Birth of Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, Spanish painter (d. 1871).
• 1854 – Death of Antonio Neira de Mosquera, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1818).
• 1886 – The Chilean Academy of Language is founded in Santiago de Chile.
• 1961 – Death of Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer and journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1899).
• 1908 – Birth of Luis Fernández Martín, Spanish Jesuit priest and historian (d. 2003).
• 1982 – In Madrid, by decree of the French National Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of Spain is created.
• 1992 – Death of Camarón de la Isla, Spanish cantaor, renewer of flamenco singing (b. 1950).
• 2000 – In Mexico, Vicente Fox becomes the first opposition candidate to defeat the Institutional Revolutionary Party in a presidential election.
• 2007 – In Yemen, eight Spanish tourists and two Yemenis die in a suicide attack.
• 2008 – In Colombia, the army carries out Operation Jaque, rescuing 15 hostages held by the guerrilla group FARC, among them Íngrid Betancourt, 3 American contractors and 11 soldiers.