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Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco

• 1134 – Death of Alfonso I, the Battler, King of Aragon and of Navarre (b. c. 1073).
• 1312 – Death of Ferdinand IV, King of Castile and King of León (b. 1285).
• 1499 – In Córdoba (Spain), Diego de Lucero El tenebroso is chosen to head the Tribunal of the Inquisition and begins a policy of harsh repression that finally ends in the storming of the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos by a mob that freed more than 400 prisoners and sought to lynch him.
• 1650 – Birth of Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, Spanish aristocrat, founder of the Real Academia Española (d. 1725).
• 1741 – Death of Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral, known for leading the successful defense of Cartagena de Indias during the British siege of 1741 (b. 1689).
• 1822 – In Buenos Aires, the Banco de Buenos Ayres begins operating; in 1824 it managed a loan of 1,000,000 pounds sterling with London bankers, which is considered the origin of the Argentine external debt.
• 1841 – In Santiago de Chile, the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones (Providencia) is founded.
• 1873 – In Spain, Nicolás Salmerón Alonso resigns as president of the First Spanish Republic.
• 1932 – During the Chaco War (1932-1935), 11,000 Paraguayan soldiers face 1,200 Bolivians at the Battle of Boquerón.
• 1924 – Death of Cristóbal Benítez, Spanish explorer (b. 1856).
• 1931 – Death of Federico Pelico Tinoco, Costa Rican politician and dictator (b. 1868).
• 1936 – María Domínguez Remón, journalist and politician, the first Spanish republican mayoress, is executed by firing squad (b. 1882).
• 1940 – Death of José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguayan president, in a plane crash (b. 1888).
• 1947 – In Argentina, women obtain the right to vote.
• 1951 – Death of Maria Montez, Dominican film actress.
• 1955 – In Peru, women obtain the right to vote.
• 1977 – The Torrijos–Carter Treaties are signed, under which sovereignty over the Panama Canal is progressively transferred from the United States to Panama.
• 2015 – Death of Maruja Venegas Salinas, Peruvian broadcaster, journalist and educator, who hosted the program Radio Club Infantil for 67 years and 292 days (b. 1915).
• 2017 – Off the coast of Chiapas (Mexico), an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 on the Richter scale is recorded, leaving more than 103 dead.