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Pedro Mir

• 1523 – Joanot Colom, Spanish hatmaker and guerrilla fighter, leader of the Germanía of Majorca, dies with his throat cut (b. 1500).
• 1548 – Death of Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Franciscan religious, first archbishop of Mexico (b. 1468).
• 1749 – In the Viceroyalty of New Granada (present-day Panama), Bishop Luna Victoria promotes the founding of the University of San Javier.
• 1763 – By virtue of the Treaty of Paris, British troops once again occupy the island of Menorca.
• 1770 – Birth of Manuel Belgrano, Rioplatense military officer and politician (present-day Argentina) (d. 1820).
• 1769 – In Spain, the astronomer Vicente Tofiño observes the transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun.
• 1863 – In the Philippines an earthquake brings down Manila Cathedral, and the members of the Cabildo perish in the disaster.
• 1873 – Death of Calfucurá, Argentine Mapuche cacique (b. 1780).
• 1896 – Ricardo Seminario y Aramburú, Peruvian diplomat and military officer, flees from Loreto, whereupon the first attempt to federalize Peru collapses.
• 1896 – Birth of Isaac Puente, Spanish physician and theorist of anarchism (d. 1936).
• 1898 – Birth of Rosa Chacel, Spanish writer of the Generation of '27 (d. 1994).
• 1899 – Spain and the United States resume their diplomatic relations, broken off after the war and the United States invasion of the Spanish territories.
• 1913 – Birth of Pedro Mir, Dominican writer, essayist and lawyer.
• 1923 – Death of Federico Villarreal, Peruvian mathematician, physicist, engineer and polyglot (b. 1850).
• 1979 – In Las Palmas (Canary Islands) the 1st International Congress of Writers in the Spanish Language is inaugurated.
• 1979 – In the south of the Gulf of Mexico, an explosion at the Ixtoc I oil well causes the loss of between 0.7 and 1 million tons of oil, the largest loss in history.
• 1994 – The United States Army vacates the Panama Canal, 83 years after establishing itself there, in accordance with the provisions of the Torrijos-Carter Agreements.
• 1999 – The Spaniard Javier Solana, until then Secretary General of NATO, is appointed the first representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.
• 2008 – In Medellín (Colombia) the 38th Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly concludes.
• 2014 – In New York (United States), the United States NGO Human Rights Watch officially states that it will not accede to the proposal to expel from its board of directors Javier Solana (former Secretary General of NATO) or other of its top executives who have direct ties to the United States government and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).
• 2018 – In Guatemala the eruption of the Volcán de Fuego caused more than 100 deaths, 200 missing, 600 injured and nearly two million inhabitants affected. Two days later another explosion would occur.
• 2020 – Death of Héctor Ortega Gómez, Mexican actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1939).