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Jusepe de Ribera

• 1502 – Death of Ahuitzotl, military and religious leader, eighth huey tlatoani of the Mexica (b. ?).
• 1519 – At Tecohuactzinco (present-day Mexico), the army of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés defeats the 40,000 men of Xicotencatl.
• 1587 – The first official export from the territory leaves the port of Buenos Aires (Governorate of the Río de la Plata, present-day Argentina) bound for Brazil.
• 1652 – Death of Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter, draftsman and engraver who spent his whole career in Italy (b. 1591).
• 1775 – Birth of Juan Martín Díez "El Empecinado", leader of one of the legendary guerrilla bands that repeatedly defeated the Napoleonic army (d. 1825).
• 1820 – In Argentina (during the Argentine Civil Wars between Unitarians and Federalists), the Battle of Gamonal is fought.
• 1845 – Death of Bernardino Rivadavia, first head of state of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (b. 1780).
• 1919 – Birth of Luz Méndez de la Vega, Guatemalan writer, journalist, poet and actress (d. 2012).
• 1947 – In Málaga (Spain), the Archaeological Museum is created by decree under the auspices of Juan Temboury.
• 1948 – In Medellín (Colombia), the first radio network, Caracol Radio, begins broadcasting.
• 1958 – In Havana, during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, Raúl González Sánchez is murdered in front of the School of Dentistry, which now bears his name.
• 1960 – In El Salvador, on the orders of President José María Lemus, security forces violently enter the University of El Salvador, where they beat and arrest the rector, Napoleón Rodríguez Ruiz, as well as other people who were there.
• 1961 – In Havana, the National Sports Institute issues resolution no. 38, which abolishes professional boxing in Cuba.
• 1989 – In Colombia, at 6:45, a terrorist bombing destroys the premises of the newspaper El Espectador.
• 1991 – Death of Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1982 (b. 1911).
• 1992 – In Nicaragua, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake on the Richter scale shakes the country's Pacific coast, producing a tsunami that killed at least 116 people.
• 2009 – Death of Christian Poveda, Spanish-French photographer and filmmaker, murdered in El Salvador (b. 1955).
• 2011 – Near Juan Fernández Island, in the Pacific Ocean, 21 people die in an air crash. The victims were military personnel, businesspeople and Chilean television journalists.