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Carlos Gardel

• 1081 – Birth of Urraca I, the Reckless, Queen of León from 1109 to 1126, the first woman in Europe to reign in her own right (d. 1126).
• 1128 – Afonso Henriques defeats his mother and her Galician supporters (of the House of Traba) at the Battle of San Mamede, and takes over the government, bringing about the de facto independence of Portugal.
• 1280 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain), Sancho IV, in command of the troops of his father, Alfonso X the Wise, together with those of Abu Yusuf and the Banu Ashqilula, manages to reach the very walls of the city of Granada, where he is defeated.
• 1509 – Catherine of Aragon, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs and first wife of Henry VIII, is crowned Queen of England.
• 1542 – Birth of Juan de la Cruz, Spanish religious, poet and saint (d. 1591).
• 1564 – Villahermosa, capital of the State of Tabasco (Mexico), is founded.
• 1571 – Miguel López de Legazpi founds the Philippine city of Manila.
• 1622 – In Macau, a Dutch invasion attempt takes place, which is repelled by Portuguese and Spanish troops from the Fortaleza do Monte.
• 1803 – Birth of Juan Bravo Murillo, politician and Spanish President of the Government from 1851 to 1852 (d. 1873).
• 1821 – In Venezuela the Battle of Carabobo takes place, in which the pro-independence army defeats the royalist army, thus sealing the independence of the country.
• 1835 – Death of Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Spanish general during the First Carlist War (b. 1788).
• 1854 – The United States buys the region of La Mesilla from Mexico.
• 1911 – Birth of Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer.
• 1914 – Birth of Luis Sánchez Agesta, Spanish jurist, professor and academic (d. 1997).
• 1916 – The pilot Eduardo Bradley, from La Plata, becomes the first person to cross the Andes mountain range by air, aboard a balloon.
• 1935 – Death of Carlos Gardel, singer, composer and film actor (b. between 1883 and 1890).
• 1935 – Death of Alfredo Le Pera, Argentine-Brazilian composer, lyricist of Carlos Gardel's best-known tangos (b. 1900).
• 1945 – Death of Moisés Simons, Cuban conductor, composer and pianist (b. 1889).
• 1949 – In Pachuca de Soto (Mexico) the Flood of '49 occurs, the worst tragedy in that town's history in the 20th century.
• 1969 – In Peru, the government of Juan Velasco Alvarado promulgates the Decree Law that began the Agrarian Reform process.
• 2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last specimen of the species Chelonoidis abingdonii, giant tortoises native to the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador (b. c. 1910).
• 2013 – Death of Javier de Belaúnde Ruiz de Somocurcio, Peruvian politician, lawyer and historian (b. 1909).
• 2014 – Death of Ramón J. Velásquez, Venezuelan politician, jurist and historian, President of Venezuela from 1993 to 1994 (b. 1916).
• 2021 – Death of Benigno Aquino III, economist and politician, President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016 (b. 1960).