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José Martínez Ruiz, Azorín

• 1288 – Lope de Haro, Lord of Biscay, is put to death in Alfaro (present-day Spain) when, knife in hand, he tried to attack Sancho IV, King of Castile.
• 1492 – In Córdoba (Spain), by a document issued by the Catholic Monarchs, Alonso Fernández de Lugo obtains permission for the conquest of the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, on condition that he complete it within a year and bear the costs of the enterprise.
• 1563 – At Mazalquivir (present-day Algeria), the Ottoman troops withdraw after a failed siege in which they suffer heavy human and material losses.
• 1595 – In the Province of Venezuela, the English privateers Amyas Preston and George Somers assault Caracas and decide to burn it when they cannot obtain the expected booty, since the valuables had been moved to a nearby hill.
• 1805 – Birth of Salustiano Olózaga, Spanish politician, lawyer and writer (d. 1873).
• 1873 – Birth of José Martínez Ruiz, Azorín, Spanish novelist, essayist, playwright and literary critic, belonging to the Generation of '98 (d. 1967).
• 1929 – In Bogotá (Colombia), the student Gonzalo Bravo Pérez is murdered after denouncing the Banana massacre and other State crimes, for which reason Student Day has been commemorated on this date ever since.
• 1942 – José Pellicer Gandía, Spanish anarchist and revolutionary, founder of the Iron Column, accused of all kinds of outrages during the Spanish Civil War, is executed by firing squad (b. 1912).
• 1954 – In Bogotá (Colombia), the Army opens fire on students of the National University who were demonstrating against the dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
• 1970 – In Argentina the Junta of Commanders overthrows the dictator Juan Carlos Onganía.
• 1970 – Death of Manuel de Castro, Uruguayan writer and journalist (b. 1896).
• 1990 – Death of José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican farmer, businessman and president in 1948-1949, 1953-1958 and 1970-1974 (b. 1906).
• 1997 – Death of Luis Bru Villaseca, Spanish researcher, physicist and academic (b. 1909).
• 2001 – Former Argentine president Carlos Menem is sentenced to house arrest, accused of heading an unlawful association.
• 2007 – Death of José Martín Recuerda, Spanish playwright and teacher (b. 1926).
• 2022 – Death of Luis Pico Estrada, Argentine journalist and film, radio, television and theater writer (b. 1936).