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Roberto Cofresi

• 1139 – The bull Omne Datum Optimum is promulgated by Pope Innocent II to make official the creation of the Order of the Temple.
• 1332 – Birth of Muhammad VI, Nasrid Sultan of Granada between 1360 and 1362 (d. 1362).
• 1640 – In Calanda (Spain), the greatest documented miracle of Christendom takes place, by which it is attested that Miguel Pellicer recovers his leg through the work and grace of the Virgin of the Pillar.
• 1647 – Birth of Antonio Teodoro Ortells, Spanish Baroque composer (d. 1706).
• 1675 – Death of Juana de la Cruz, Spanish beata and writer (b. 1597).
• 1785 – In Venezuela, the Spanish cleric Juan Ramos de Lora founds the Royal Seminary College of San Buenaventura of Mérida.
• 1823 – A group of Mexican imperialists from the city of Cartago (unaware that the Mexican Empire had ceased to exist ten days earlier) seize the arms barracks of the town of San José (Costa Rica) and proclaim the annexation of the country.
• 1825 – Roberto Cofresi, Puerto Rican pirate, is executed by firing squad (b. 1791).
• 1830 – In Spain, King Ferdinand VII promulgates a Pragmatic Sanction (repealing the Salic Law, which excluded women from the throne) so that his eldest daughter, Isabella II, could reign.
• 1847 – In Mexico, U.S. forces (led by General Winfield Scott) lay siege to the city of Veracruz.
• 1901 – In Río Negro Province (Argentina), the town of Río Colorado is founded.
• 1915 – Birth of Antonio Hernández Gil, Spanish jurist and politician (d. 1994).
• 1939 – Murcia is taken by the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War.
• 1939 – In the context of the Spanish Civil War, faced with the imminent victory of the Nationalist side, some 15,000 people, among them many Republican military chiefs, politicians and combatants, crowd into the port of Alicante after the departure of the ships Stanbrook and Marítima, waiting to be rescued by other English or French ships that will never arrive.
• 1940 – Death of Ángela Graupera, Spanish writer and war correspondent (b. 1876).
• 1956 – Juan Carlos de Borbón accidentally kills his younger brother, Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón, with a shot to the forehead.
• 1981 – In Argentina, the dictator Jorge Videla hands power over to Lieutenant General Roberto Eduardo Viola, and the peso is devalued by 30%.
• 2017 – In Venezuela, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice assumes the functions of the National Assembly, resulting in a loss of powers of the Assembly.