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Maimonides

• 1135 – In Al-Andalus (present-day Spain), birth of Maimonides, Sephardic physician, philosopher, astronomer and rabbi, at the end of the so-called Golden Age of Jewish culture in Al-Andalus (d. 1204).
• 1468 – Birth of Diego García de Paredes, nicknamed the Samson of Extremadura, Spanish soldier famous for his extraordinary physical strength and his many feats (d. 1533).
• 1493 – The Catholic Monarchs, after the return of Christopher Columbus, prohibit voyages to America without prior license.
• 1544 – In Seville (Spain), the Dominican father Bartolomé de las Casas is consecrated bishop of the region of Chiapas (Mexico).
• 1612 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru (present-day Bolivia), Captain Pedro Lucio Escalante de Mendoza founds the village of Vallegrande.
• 1615 – In Spain, Cervantes receives royal authorization to print the second part of El Quijote.
• 1781 – In Spain, the famous bandit Diego Corrientes is executed (b. 1757).
• 1746 – Birth of Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter and printmaker (d. 1828).
• 1818 – The First Squadron of the Chilean Navy is created.
• 1844 – In the city of Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic), the second battle for national independence takes place.
• 1845 – Spain recognizes the independence of Venezuela.
• 1870 – From Fort Sarmiento (the present-day Argentine city of Río Cuarto), Colonel Lucio V. Mansilla sets out on an 18-day peaceful expedition to the lands of the Ranquel cacique Mariano Rosas.
• 1875 – Death of Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, Argentine jurist, lawyer and politician, author of the Civil Code of Argentina of 1869, in force until 2015 (b. 1800).
• 1927 – In Argentina, the first telegraphic communication with Antarctica takes place, between Ushuaia and Orcadas Base.
• 1950 – The court of the Tangier International Zone hands down its sentence in the case of arms smuggling into the Spanish territory of Morocco. The main defendant is sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 francs, and the other defendants to lesser penalties.
• 1962 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the day after the overthrow of Arturo Frondizi, the new Minister of Economy Jorge Wehbe (32) devalues the peso; Argentines see their wages reduced by 45 %.
• 1979 – Adolfo Suárez is invested President of the Spanish Government after obtaining the vote of confidence of the Congress of Deputies.
• 1980 – In San Salvador (capital of El Salvador), Government forces shoot dead 40 unarmed civilians at the funeral of Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, murdered on March 24 by a military commando.
• 1982 – In Bolivia, the population joins en masse the general strike against the military junta of Celso Torrelio Villa.
• 1985 – In Chile, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, three teachers of communist ideology are tortured and their throats cut.
• 2010 – In Europe, the Euribor reaches its all-time record low, at 1.21%.