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Giulio Alberoni

• 1456 – Henry IV of Castile grants the Charter of Privilege to the town of Estepona (present-day Spain).
• 1554 – In England, Mary Tudor recognizes her husband, Philip II of Spain, as her heir.
• 1598 – The Battle of San Juan begins, which would end with the capture of the city of San Juan, in Puerto Rico, by English troops.
• 1666 – Death of Richard Fanshawe, British diplomat, translator, poet and Hispanist (b. 1608).
• 1752 – Death of Giulio Alberoni, Italian politician, minister plenipotentiary of Philip V (b. 1664).
• 1779 – Spain declares war on Great Britain and the Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 1802 – The island of Menorca becomes a Spanish possession again by the Treaty of Amiens.
• 1805 – In the Viceroyalty of New Granada a strong earthquake occurs, mainly affecting the present-day Colombian departments of Tolima and Cundinamarca.
• 1829 – Birth of Geronimo, prominent North American Apache military leader, who fought against the Mexican and United States armies (d. 1909).
• 1863 – Birth of Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician (d. 1939).
• 1863 – Birth of Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter (d. 1898).
• 1866 – Birth of Joaquín Clausell, Mexican painter (d. 1935).
• 1955 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Argentine Navy bombed the Plaza de Mayo in a failed attempt at a coup d'état against president Juan Domingo Perón, leaving more than 300 dead and some 2,000 wounded.
• 1986 – In Santiago de Chile, a bomb attack takes place at the Los Héroes and Tobalaba stations of the Santiago Metro, leaving one dead and seven people injured.
• 2005 – Death of Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist, short story writer, teacher, critic and columnist (b. 1906).
• 2019 – A historic power blackout occurs, affecting several countries of South America; it originated in Argentina and affected its entire national territory (except Tierra del Fuego), as well as Uruguay and Paraguay.