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Matías Ramón Mella

• 1076 – Death of Sancho Garcés IV, King of Navarre (present-day Spain) (b. 1039).
• 1094 – Death of Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragon and of Navarre (present-day Spain) (b. 1043).
• 1094 – In the Kingdom of Aragon (present-day Spain), Peter I succeeds his father Sancho Ramírez.
• 1170 – In the present-day Province of León (Spain), Alfonso VIII of Castile and Alfonso II of Aragon sign the Treaty of Sahagún.
• 1536 – The Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro reaches the territories of present-day Chile.
• 1669 – In present-day Spain, John Joseph of Austria is appointed Viceroy of Aragon.
• 1684 – The French general Créqui takes the city of Luxembourg, defended by the Prince of Chimay at the head of a Spanish-Walloon garrison.
• 1741 – In Spain the word «manzanilla» appears for the first time in reference to the wines of Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
• 1742 – Birth of Jordán de Asso, Spanish naturalist, jurist and historian (d. 1814).
• 1765 – In the Captaincy General of Guatemala, the first settlement of the City of Chiquimula is destroyed by a violent hurricane and several tremors, known as the Holy Trinity earthquakes, which cause landslides and floods.
• 1846 – 35 km north of Rosario (Argentina) the Rosista forces of General Lucio Mansilla destroy 6 of 12 French and British warships at the Battle of Quebracho.
• 1864 – Death of Matías Ramón Mella, one of the three Fathers of the Dominican Republic.
• 1923 – At the tin mine of Uncía (Bolivia), the Government of constitutional president Bautista Saavedra Mallea (1870-1939) has the miners and their families fired upon. Some seven people die.
• 1923 – In Zaragoza (Spain) Cardinal Juan Soldevilla is murdered.
• 1923 – In Barcelona (Spain) the film Mujeres frívolas, starring Ramón Novarro, premieres.
• 1931 – In Madrid (Spain) the newspaper ABC resumes publication.
• 1932 – In Chile, Marmaduke Grove leads a coup d'état that proclaims the Socialist Republic of Chile.
• 1943 – In Argentina the Revolution of '43 breaks out, which would establish a de facto military government.
• 1946 – In Argentina Juan Domingo Perón assumes his first presidency.
• 1948 – In Asunción (Paraguay), Juan Manuel Frutos becomes provisional president after the resignation of Morínigo.
• 1951 – In Barcelona (Spain) the film El sueño de Andalucía, starring Luis Mariano and Carmen Sevilla and directed by Luis Lucía, premieres.
• 1952 – In Argentina, after his re-election in November 1951, Perón again takes office as president of Argentina.
• 1970 – El Salvador and Honduras sign an agreement in San José de Costa Rica that ends the Football War.
• 1998 – The entire Peruvian cabinet submits its resignation to the country's president Alberto Fujimori.
• 1999 – The fifteen heads of State and Government of the European Union launch the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) under the guidance of the Spaniard Javier Solana.
• 2002 – In Buenos Aires, the Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle bursts into tears while apologizing for his statements against Argentina in a United States media outlet.
• 2006 – In Peru, Alan García is elected constitutional president for the second time, defeating the nationalist Ollanta Humala.
• 2009 – Cuba declines the offer of readmission to the OAS.
• 2011 – The Chilean courts begin formally investigating the deaths of Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda and Eduardo Frei Montalva, for the first time since Augusto Pinochet's coup of September 1973.
• 2017 – Death of Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer (b. 1931).