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Spain On This Day - May 4
By m.p. - May 4, 2008 - 6:45 AM
email this articleSaints days – José María Rubio, Ciriaco, Florián, Paulino, Pelagia and Antonia. La Ascensión del Señor.
Mothers day
1455: The Christian forces of Enrique VI of Castilla entered into the villages of Alora, Coín and Cártama in Málaga, pulling up cereal crops and vines.
1502: Crsitóbal Colón started his fourth trip to America.
1589: Francis Drake started his plans to attack La Coruña.
1814: Fernando VII declared the 1812 Constitution null and all the decisions of the Cádiz courts.
1909: Large typhoid epidemic in Sevilla.
1923: Railway between Atocha and Puente de Vallecas opened in Madrid.
1935: Riots in Granada following the sale of a fascist publication, ‘Patria’.
1939: Spain withdraws from the League of Nations.
1941: Madrid horse race track at the Zarzuela opens.
1968: Spain closes the frontier with Gibraltar.
1970: Manolo Santana wins the Puerta de Hierro international tournament in Madrid.
1976: First edition of El País.
1979: The Senate is constituted in Spain.
1996: José María Aznar became Prime Minister after 13 years of PSOE government.
Bullfighter, Manuel Benítez, El Cordobés – born 1936.
Cesc Fàbregas – footballer, born 1987 same day as motorbike champion Jorge Lorenzo.
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