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Spain On This Day - March 4
By m.p. - Mar 4, 2008 - 2:01 AM
email this articleSaint’s Day for Basilio, Eugenio, Cirilo, Casimiro and Elpidio.
1812: the first lottery draw takes place in Cádiz in the fore-runner to today’s National Lottery.
1979: the first ever strike by football players takes place in Spain.
Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, named President of the Franco government in June 1973, and killed in an ETA bomb attack in December that year, was born in Cantabria in 1903.
The famous Copla singer, Miguel de Molina, died in Buenos Aires on this day in 1993, at the age of 84.
Rafael Montesinos, considered one of Andalucía’s greatest post-war poets, died on this day in 2005.
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