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Spain On This Day - May 6
By m.p. - May 6, 2008 - 6:31 AM
email this articleSaints days – Benita, Heliodoro, Evodio, Lucio and Domingo Savio.
589: Vizigoth King Recaredo converted to Catholicism
822: Omayian Emir, Al-Hakam 1, swore fidelity to his sons, Abd al-Rahman and Al-Mugira, designating them heirs to the throne in that order.
1497: A Royal order declared trade with the new world free of tax
1707: The body of the Royal Guards are created in Spain for the service and safety of the Spanish Royal Family.
1908: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez published his novel ‘Sangre y arena’
1937: The Guardia Civil fight in the centre of Barcelona against communists, the POUM Trotskyites and Anarchists.
1972: Nuclear power station at Vandellós joins the grid.
1994: Baltasar Garzón resigns as anti-drug tsar for the Socialists.
1998: Basque terrorists ETA kill the UPN councillor and spokesman in Pamplona, Tomás Caballero.
2001: Basque terrorists ETA kill the PP President of Aragón, Manuel Giménez Abad when he was on the way to watch the football with his son.
Luis Ángel Rojo, Spanish economist and Governor of the Bank of Spain born 1934, Loltia Flores, Spanish singer and actress born 1958, and Julia Otero, radio presenter 1960.
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