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Félix Máximo López

• 656 – In Visigothic Hispania, the Seventh Council of Toledo begins.
• 1096 – In the Taifa of Zaragoza (present-day Spain), Peter I, King of Navarre and Aragon, conquers Huesca.
• 1434 – In Spain, John II of Castile, in gratitude for services rendered, grants the town of Rute (Córdoba) to his page Ramiro Yáñez de Barnuevo y Sotomayor.
• 1517 – In Spain, Charles I arrives in Valladolid, where the rivalries between the Flemish and the Spanish aristocracy will soon become evident.
• 1742 – Birth of Félix Antonio Máximo López Crespo, Spanish composer, organist and writer (d. 1821).
• 1768 – Birth of Abate Marchena, Spanish writer and politician (d. 1821).
• 1809 – During the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, the Spanish army organized by the Junta Central is defeated at the Battle of Ocaña.
• 1823 – In Lima (Peru), the Congress names General José Bernardo de Tagle first constitutional president of the Republic of Peru.
• 1824 – In Mexico, the Federal District is created as the capital of the Republic, seated in Mexico City.
• 1846 – In Spain, the Higher Technical School of Forestry Engineers is established in Villaviciosa de Odón.
• 1852 – In Chile, the city of San Javier de Loncomilla is founded.
• 1868 – Death of José Tadeo Monagas, soldier, politician and three-time President of Venezuela (b. 1784).
• 1901 – In the center of Mexico City, at three in the morning, the police carry out a raid and arrest 41 men (22 dressed as men and 19 as women) and take them to the Belén prison. One of them, the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz, is released.
• 1903 – Panama and the United States sign the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty for the construction and operation of the Panama Canal.
• 1909 – In Nicaragua, the dictator José Santos Zelaya has some 500 revolutionaries executed.
• 1952 – UNESCO admits Spain to the organization.
• 1960 – In the Netherlands, the International Court of Justice at The Hague settles the old border conflict between Nicaragua and Honduras in favor of the latter.
• 2007 – The Spanish Wikipedia publishes its 300,000th article.
• 2010 – Death of Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican television presenter, producer, comedian, announcer and philanthropist (b. 1940).
• 2016 – UNESCO declares the musical group Serenata Guayanesa Cultural Heritage of Venezuela.