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Miguel Ángel Asturias

• 439 – Death of Átlatl Cauac, Maya ruler of Teotihuacan (b. mid-4th century).
• 721 – In present-day France, the Frankish army of Odo the Great defeats the Muslim army of the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1354 – In Burgos (Crown of Castile), King Alfonso XI of Castile establishes the regimiento with the direct appointment of sixteen commoner knights who take over the functions of the council.
• 1508 – In Spain, King Ferdinand the Catholic grants Diego de Nicuesa the rights of discovery over the Governorate of Veragua (from the Gulf of Urabá to the coasts of present-day Panama).
• 1597 – Death of José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary, who was also a distinguished linguist, man of letters, physician, architect, engineer, humanist and poet (b. 1534).
• 1760 – Birth of Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos, Mexican lawyer (d. 1808).
• 1803 – Birth of Juan Bravo Murillo, Spanish politician and jurist (d. 1873).
• 1805 – Birth of José Trinidad Cabañas, Honduran military officer, president and national hero (d. 1871).
• 1815 – The Congress of Vienna ends, during which the political map of Europe is redrawn after the defeat of Napoleon.
• 1817 – Birth of Julio Arboleda Pombo, president of the Granadine Confederation (d. 1862).
• 1829 – In Madrid the Spanish Bank of San Fernando, precursor of the present-day Bank of Spain, is created.
• 1829 – Death of Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, Spanish admiral and politician, last Viceroy of the Río de la Plata (b. 1756).
• 1847 – The Spanish military expedition under the command of General Concha enters Portugal to put down the rebellion of Oporto against the Portuguese Government, following the guidelines of the Quadruple Alliance.
• 1876 – Birth of Ángela Graupera, Spanish writer and war correspondent (d. 1940).
• 1905 – On leaving the Paris Opera, a failed bomb attack is made on King Alfonso XIII of Spain and President Émile Loubet of France.
• 1956 – In the rubbish dump of the town of José León Suárez (Greater Buenos Aires), police under orders of the dictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu shoot Peronist civilians and soldiers.
• 1973 – In Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is sworn in as President of the Government, in the final stage of the Franco regime.
• 1974 – Death of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, journalist and diplomat, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967 (b. 1899).
• 1986 – The presidents of the INI and of Volkswagen sign in Geneva the sale of 51% of the shares of SEAT to the German multinational.
• 2020 – Death of Pau Dones, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer (b. 1966).