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Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo

• 1247 – Death of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, churchman, historian, military leader and statesman of the Kingdom of Navarre and of Castile (present-day Spain) (b. 1170).
• 1539 – The Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto lands with 600 men in the Bay of the Holy Spirit (present-day Tampa, United States).
• 1710 – Birth of Pedro Romero de Terreros, Spanish industrialist and politician.
• 1719 – British forces defeat Jacobite and Spanish troops at the Battle of Glen Shiel, in the Scottish Highlands.
• 1647 – In Manila Bay (Philippines), in the course of the Eighty Years' War, the Battle of Puerto de Cavite is fought.
• 1770 – In Buenos Aires the Spanish governor orders the eviction of the illegal British invaders from the Malvinas Islands.
• 1781 – In Guatemala City the Colegio San José de los Infantes is founded.
• 1829 – Buenos Aires creates the Political and Military Command of the Malvinas Islands, with Luis Vernet as its authority.
• 1838 – Birth of Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo, Colombian historian, translator and genealogist (d. 1919).
• 1849 – In Paraguay, President Carlos Antonio López decrees the occupation of the territory of the Misiones Orientales, which was in dispute between the governments of Paraguay and the Confederation.
• 1886 – In La Plata, Argentina, several people are murdered at the door of the Church of San Ponciano during the city's first municipal elections.
• 1898 – In Cuba (in the course of the Spanish–American War) the United States marines land.
• 1971 – In Mexico the Corpus Christi massacre takes place. The «Halcones» (an elite group of the Mexican Army, trained with the support of the United States government) repress student demonstrations in Mexico City, massacring 120 students.
• 1990 – In Peru Alberto Fujimori defeats Mario Vargas Llosa in the run-off of the presidential election.
• 2021 – Death of Tomás Llorens Serra, Spanish art historian, art critic and museologist (b. 1936).