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Antonio de Villacastín

• 298 – Emeterius and Celedonius of Calahorra, Roman soldiers serving in La Rioja (present-day Spain), are beheaded for professing Christianity (c. 4th century).
• 1009 – Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo, Amirid leader and successor of Almanzor in the Caliphate of Córdoba (present-day Spain), is beheaded (b. 983).
• 1478 – In Spain, the Catholic Monarchs issue a Royal Pragmatic granting bounties and stipends to encourage shipbuilding and promote the naval industry in their kingdoms.
• 1522 – The royal troops enter Valencia (Spain), where Vicente Peris, leader of the Germanías revolt, is executed.
• 1547 – In Zaragoza (Spain), work begins on the last enlargement of the church of La Seo.
• 1603 – Death of Antonio de Villacastín, master of works of the Monastery of El Escorial (b. 1512).
• 1816 – Near Villar (Bolivia), Juana Azurduy, at the head of thirty horsemen, among them several women, attacks the forces of the Spanish colonel José de La Hera, seizes their standard and manages to take rifles and ammunition.
• 1845 – Florida becomes the 27th state of the United States.
• 1904 – In Spain, the Sunday Rest Law is enacted, prohibiting work on Sundays.
• 1935 – In Mexico, the Autonomous University of Guadalajara is founded, the first private university in that country.
• 1945 – In Spain, the trading company Tabacalera is created from the Compañía Arrendataria de Tabacos.
• 1952 – In Puerto Rico (as an unincorporated territory invaded by the United States), the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is approved.
• 1963 – Spain expels the former colonel Gardés, a member of the clandestine terrorist organization OAS, which murdered thousands of Algerians during the Algerian War of Independence.
• 1972 – In Spain, Gregorio López-Bravo declares that "the Sahrawis will freely choose their destiny".
• 1982 – Mi último suspiro, the autobiography of film director Luis Buñuel, is published in Paris.
• 2019 – Death of José Ladrón de Guevara, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1929).
• 2000 – In Chile, the former dictator Augusto Pinochet returns to his country after 503 days of detention in London, having been released on "humanitarian grounds".
• 2021 – Death of Celestino Bocale, engineer and politician from Equatorial Guinea (b. 1957).