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Ferdinand VII of Spain

• 818 – Al-Hakam I, third independent emir of the Emirate of Córdoba (present-day Spain), orders the harsh repression of a riot in the suburb of Saqunda.
• 1526 – Antonio de Acuña, a Spanish cleric known for his participation in the War of the Communities of Castile, is executed at the Castle of Simancas (b. 1453).
• 1579 – Birth of Tirso de Molina, playwright, poet and prose writer of the Spanish Baroque (d. 1648).
• 1808 – In Spain, French troops under the command of Joachim Murat occupy the capital, Madrid, and put an end to the government of Manuel Godoy.
• 1809 – Birth of Mariano José de Larra, Spanish writer and journalist (d. 1837).
• 1814 – In Spain, Ferdinand VII enters the country to take charge of the Government after the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain.
• 1815 – In Spain, Ferdinand VII institutes the Order of Isabella the Catholic to reward services rendered in the viceroyalties of America.
• 1815 – Birth of María Rosa Molas, Spanish religious, foundress of the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation (d. 1876).
• 1875 – In Spain, in the course of the Carlist Wars, Alfonso XII takes command of the Army of the North.
• 1895 – In Barcelona (Spain), Valentí Almirall, carrying out the testamentary bequest of the journalist and playwright Rossend Arús, founds the Arús Public Library, with 25,000 volumes.
• 1916 – Death of Enrique Granados, Spanish composer, aged 48, in the sinking of the ship Sussex, torpedoed by the German navy during the First World War (b. 1867).
• 1917 – The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru is founded in Lima, Peru.
• 1976 – A coup d'état takes place in Argentina, in which María Estela Martínez de Perón is deposed by a military junta headed by Jorge Rafael Videla, beginning that nation's last military dictatorship, whose aim was the "disciplining" of the population through the forced disappearance and murder of opponents. Since 2005 this day has been a national holiday in memory of the more than 30,000 victims, dead and disappeared.
• 1980 – In El Salvador, a sniper murders during a Mass Monsignor Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, known for his defense of human rights, during the Civil War in El Salvador.
• 1982 – In Mexico, a fire destroys the Cineteca Nacional, leaving several dead and an immeasurable cultural loss.
• 2002 – Death of César Milstein, Argentine biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1984 (b. 1927).
• 2007 – In San Salvador de Alesga (Asturias), the Prehistory Park of Teverga opens, where the caves of Altamira, Covalanas, Tito Bustillo, Candamo, Covaciella and Llonín are reproduced.
• 2011 – Death of Gloria Valencia de Castaño, Colombian intellectual, journalist and television presenter (b. 1927).