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Mario Molina

• 788 – In the Emirate of Córdoba (present-day Spain), Hisham I, second independent emir of Al-Andalus, comes to power.
• 1072 – In Zamora (present-day Spain), Bellido Dolfos murders King Sancho the Strong beside the city walls.
• 1513 – In present-day Italy (during the War of the League of Cambrai), the Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians at the Battle of La Motta.
• 1530 – In Klein-Venedig (Kingdom of Tierra Firme, present-day Venezuela), the German explorer Nicolás Federmann discovers the Ayamán micro-kingdom of the Region of Carohana (Carora), and then continues in search of El Dorado.
• 1542 – In California (present-day USA), the Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island.
• 1571 – The Battle of Lepanto takes place between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League, formed by the Spanish Empire, the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, the Order of Malta, the Republic of Genoa and the Duchy of Savoy.
• 1637 – In the Spanish Netherlands, Prince Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau occupies Breda.
• 1870 – Matanzas Province (Cuba) is devastated by the hurricane of Saint Mark's Day. In the city of Matanzas alone, the floods cause 800 deaths.
• 1882 – Pinar del Río Province (Cuba) is devastated by a hurricane for three days.
• 1912 – Birth of Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, twice President of Peru: 1963-1968 and 1980-1985 (d. 2002).
• 1945 – Pinar del Río Province (Cuba) is devastated by a hurricane.
• 2007 – Costa Rica approves, through the referendum on the Free Trade Agreement, the signing of a free trade agreement with the United States, Central America and the Caribbean.
• 2010 – The Peruvian novelist, journalist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 2016 – The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2020 – Death of Mario Molina, Mexican engineer, chemist, scientist, professor and activist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate in 1995 (b. 1943).