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Spain On This Day - February 17
By m.p. - Feb 17, 2008 - 6:00 PM
email this articleSaint’s Day for Julián de Capadocia and Alejo de Falconeri.
1949: four members of the PSUC – Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya – are executed by firing squad.
1968: teaching of the Basque language is authorised in public schools in San Sebastián.
1983: Statutes of Autonomy are approved for Baleares, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Madrid.
1997: the National Policeman, Modesto Rico Pasarín, dies in an ETA car bomb attack in Bilbao.
The Ronda-born philosopher, essayist and educator, Francisco Giner de los Ríos, one of the most influential intellectuals in Spain in the late 19th-early 20th century, died in Madrid in 1915.
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