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Ismael Montes

• 912 – In the Caliphate of Córdoba (present-day Spain), Abd al-Rahman III is proclaimed emir.
• 1570 – The Baron of Montigny (Flemish nobleman sent by Margaret of Parma to Spain) is secretly executed at the Castle of Simancas (b. 1528).
• 1602 – Death of Eugenio de Salazar, Spanish writer (b. 1530).
• 1780 – Seventh and last day of the Great Hurricane of 1780 in the Antilles islands (Caribbean Sea), the deadliest hurricane on record (22,000 direct deaths, 27,000 total deaths).
• 1817 – In the main square of the Venezuelan town of Angostura, General Manuel Carlos Piar is executed by firing squad on the orders of General Simón Bolívar.
• 1840 – Birth of Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló, Spanish saint and priest, founder of the Congregation of Sisters of the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus (d. 1896).
• 1857 – Death of Miguel Teurbe Tolón, Cuban writer and teacher, creator of the flag and coat of arms of Cuba (b. 1820).
• 1881 – Death of Marcial del Adalid, Spanish composer (b. 1826).
• 1909 – In Ciudad Juárez, Porfirio Díaz and William Howard Taft meet in the first official visit of a North American president on Mexican soil, and narrowly escape an assassination.
• 1931 – Death of Luis Linares Becerra, Spanish playwright and journalist (b. 1887).
• 1933 – Death of Ismael Montes, Bolivian lawyer and politician, President of Bolivia between 1904 and 1909 and between 1913 and 1917 (b. 1861).
• 1968 – In Argentina, La Pampa Day is created in commemoration of that Argentine province.
• 1979 – Work begins on the construction of Itaipú, the largest hydroelectric dam in the world.
• 1989 – In Bucaramanga (Colombia), the Medellín Cartel carries out a car-bomb terrorist attack that destroys the premises of the newspaper Vanguardia Liberal, leaving 4 dead and 6 wounded.
• 2003 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), Néstor Kirchner (President of Argentina) and Lula da Silva (President of Brazil) sign the "Buenos Aires Consensus" to revive the trade alliance between the two countries.
• 2021 – Death of Felipe Cazals, Mexican director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1937).