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Spain On This Day - December 28
By m.p. - Dec 28, 2007 - 8:04 AM
email this articleTeófila and Castor. El Día de los Santos Inocentes, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the slaughter by King Herod the Great of all male children under the of two. It is also the Spanish equivalent of April Fool’s Day, when it is customary to play jokes.
1833: the Queen Regent, María Cristina de Borbón, whose daughter would later become Isabel II of Spain, marries Guards Captain Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez in secret, shortly after the death of her husband and uncle, Fernando VII.
1836: Spain officially recognises the independence of Mexico.
1984: a new law allowing conscientious objection to military service is published in the Official State Bulletin.
1993: the Bank of Spain removes Mario Conde as Chairman of Banesto and takes control of the bank.
The engineer and mathematician, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, who built Spain’s first dirigible, was born in Santa Cruz de Iguña Molledo, Cantabria, in 1852. Javier Arenas, leader of the Partido Popular in Andalucía, and who headed three Ministries under the previous Partido Popular government in Spain, was born in Sevilla in 1957. He is the PP’s candidate for presidency of Andalucía in the regional elections which take place in the spring of 2008.
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