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Pau Casals

• 1575 – In New Spain (present-day Mexico), the then village of Aguascalientes, today capital of the state of the same name, is founded.
• 1604 – Death of Domingo Báñez, Spanish Dominican, philosopher and theologian (b. 1528).
• 1768 – In Spain, King Charles III issues the so-called Ordinances of Charles III on the organization, discipline and services of the armies.
• 1778 – Birth of Javier de Burgos, Spanish politician, journalist, playwright and translator (d. 1848).
• 1814 – In Apatzingán (Mexico), the country's first constitution is promulgated.
• 1892 – In Argentina, an electric tram runs for the first time, in the city of La Plata.
• 1922 – Death of Roberto Wernicke, Argentine physician, bacteriologist, educator and researcher (b. 1852).
• 1935 – In Valladolid (Spain), the National Catholic Association of Fathers of Families opens the Week against Immoral Cinema.
• 1962 – American President John F. Kennedy announces the blockade of the island of Cuba until the Soviet Union withdraws the missiles installed on the island.
• 1972 – In France, the film El discreto encanto de la burguesía, by Luis Buñuel, a Spanish filmmaker in exile, premieres.
• 1973 – Death of Pau Casals, Spanish cellist, orchestra conductor and composer (b. 1876).
• 1999 – In Peru, a school breakfast donated by the government causes the death by poisoning of 24 children aged between 3 and 8.
• 2006 – Panama votes in a referendum to approve the Panama Canal expansion project.
• 2014 – In Bogotá (Colombia), SIMONU Bogotá 2014 (a simulation of the United Nations) opens, the largest in Latin America and the second largest in the world, with more than 2,500 participants.
• 2010 – Death of Alí Chumacero, Mexican poet, editor and academic (b. 1918).