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Eduardo Marquina

• 1150 – Death of García Ramírez, the Restorer, King of Pamplona from 1134 to 1150 (b. c. 1100).
• 1561 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru (present-day Bolivia), the settlement and mines of Potosí are raised to the rank of Villa Imperial de Potosí and exempted from the City of La Plata.
• 1651 – Birth of Tomás Vicente Tosca, Spanish mathematician, cartographer and theologian (d. 1723).
• 1737 – Birth of José Antonio Alzate, New Spanish polymath, philosopher, theologian, priest, astronomer, cartographer, geographer, historian, naturalist, botanist and journalist (d. 1799).
• 1839 – In Chile, the port of Tongoy is granted the status of port of trade.
• 1874 – Death of Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838).
• 1912 – Death of Máximo Tajes, Uruguayan soldier and politician, President of the Republic between 1886 and 1890 (b. 1852).
• 1946 – Death of Eduardo Marquina, Spanish writer (b. 1879).
• 1958 – In Venezuela, the Universidad de Oriente is created.
• 1981 – In Buenos Aires, during the Military Dictatorship (1976-1983), the dictator Roberto Viola, for health reasons, delegates the presidency to the Minister of the Interior, General Horacio Tomás Liendo.
• 2007 – Death of Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish writer, actor and director (b. 1921).
• 2021 – Death of Antonio Escohotado, Spanish philosopher, jurist, intellectual, essayist, translator and university professor (b. 1941).