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Isaac Albéniz

• 931 – Death of Jimeno Garcés, regent of the Kingdom of Pamplona (present-day Spain) between 925 and 931 (b. 882).
• 1379 – Death of Henry II, King of Castile (present-day Spain) (b. 1333 or 1334).
• 1486 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain), the Christian troops of Hernán Pérez del Pulgar reconquer from the Muslims the town of Salar (Granada).
• 1494 – In the San Antonio Ravine (Tenerife) the First Battle of Acentejo takes place, in which the army of the Crown of Castile suffers its greatest defeat against the Guanche troops in the Canary Islands.
• 1611 – In Spain, the Royal Order by which King Philip III ordered the expulsion of the Moriscos from the territories of the Crown of Aragon is made public.
• 1801 – Birth of Pedro Santana Familias, Hispano-Dominican landowner, nobleman, Febrerista, military officer, politician, former Freemason and caudillo (d. 1864).
• 1808 – In the course of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain the people of Cádiz rise up en masse, demanding weapons to attack the French squadron in the bay of Cádiz.
• 1810 – In Buenos Aires, the newly created first Governing Junta decrees the creation of the national military corps. This date will later become Argentine Army Day.
• 1816 – Death of Pedro Cerviño, Spanish-Argentine military engineer, surveyor, cartographer, publisher and teacher (b. 1757).
• 1857 – Death of Agustina de Aragón, famous heroine of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain against the French (b. 1786).
• 1860 – Birth of Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer.
• 1887 – The Colombian Society of Engineers is created, a nonprofit organization with scientific, professional and academic aims, which serves as an advisory center.
• 1905 – Death of Francisco Silvela, Spanish politician and writer, who held various government offices during the Regency of Maria Christina of Habsburg and the first months of the Reign of Alfonso XIII (b. 1843).
• 1958 – Death of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 (b. 1881).
• 1961 – In Cumanayagua (Cuba), a group of Cuban mercenaries paid by the United States CIA to sabotage the National Literacy Campaign shoot dead the literacy teacher Pedro Blanco Gómez (aged 13).
• 1970 – In Buenos Aires, the guerrilla organization Montoneros kidnaps and later murders General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (dictator of Argentina between 1955 and 1958).
• 1978 – In the town of Panzós (Guatemala), the army machine-guns a peaceful demonstration of indigenous Maya Qʼeqchiʼ (Panzós massacre).
• 1991 – In Vic (Spain), the terrorist group ETA carries out an attack on the Civil Guard barracks, causing 10 deaths (among them 4 girls) and 44 wounded.
• 1999 – In the municipality of Tibú (Colombia), a paramilitary force of 450 men belonging to the ACCU begins the invasion of La Gabarra.
• 2008 – In Panama City, a helicopter of the Panamanian Air Force falls in the middle of the commercial district, causing the death of 11 people, 6 of them members of the high command of the Carabineros de Chile, including the General Director of that corps, José Alejandro Bernales.