Template:On this day - June 19

Julián Juderías

• 1509 – Ferdinand II of Aragon, as Regent of Castile on behalf of his daughter, Queen Joanna I of Castile, orders by Royal Decree the founding of the town of Casabermeja (present-day Spain).
• 1613 – In the City of Córdoba (Jesuit Province of Paraguay, of the Viceroyalty of Peru, present-day Argentina), the University of Córdoba is founded, the oldest in the country and one of the first in all of America.
• 1707 – In Játiva (Spain), Bourbon troops under the orders of King Philip V set fire to the town.
• 1770 – Death of Diego de Torres Villarroel, Spanish writer, playwright, physician and mathematician (b. 1694).
• 1861 – Birth, in the Captaincy General of the Philippines, of José Rizal, Filipino physician and writer (d. 1896).
• 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I is executed by firing squad in Querétaro (Mexico) (b. 1832).
• 1911 – The Government of Venezuela buys the Miraflores Palace to turn it into the Presidential Residence.
• 1917 – The Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of Venezuela is created.
• 1918 – Death of Julián Juderías, Spanish historian, journalist, sociologist and translator, main popularizer of the concept of the «Black Legend» (b. 1877).
• 1948 – In Argentina the Eva Perón Foundation is formally constituted, a massive social assistance institution that transformed the policy of community aid in the southern country.
• 1987 – In Barcelona (Spain), the terrorist group ETA carries out the Hipercor bombing, resulting in 21 dead and some 40 injured.
• 2001 – In Spain, the Royal Mint strikes the last peseta.
• 2005 – The Ruta Quetzal BBVA 2005 begins, an educational and cultural exchange project for young people led by the Spanish adventurer Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo.
• 2014 – Juan Carlos I abdicates the Crown of Spain in favor of Felipe VI, who is proclaimed King before the Cortes Generales.