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Spain On This Day - February 25
By m.p. - Feb 25, 2008 - 12:05 AM

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Saint’s Day for Cesáreo, Donato, Nicéforo, Serapión and Sebastián.

1869: Francisco Serrano y Domínguez is appointed president of executive power of the revolutionary government which forced Isabel II off the throne.

1981: Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo is invested as Prime Minister, two days after voting on his investiture in Congress was interrupted by the attempted military coup known as 23-F.

1983: Statutes of Autonomy are approved for Baleares, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Madrid.

1992: the Civil Guard officer, José San Martín Breton, is murdered by ETA terrorists in Getxo, Vizcaya.

The former Partido Popular Prime Minister of Spain, José María Aznar, was born in Madrid on 25th February 1953.

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