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Spain On This Day - May 7
By m.p. - May 7, 2008 - 6:23 AM
email this articleSaints days – Benedicto II, Augusto, Agustín, Juvenal, Cuadrado and Flavio.
1704: Pedro II, King of Portugal, named the Archduke of Habsburg, Carlos as his successor to become Carlos III
1714: The Catalans survived an attack on Barcelona by the Royal troops in the war of Spanish succession
1810: The battle of Galera, Granada, in the war of independence
1891: The foundation stone for the Spanish Royal Academy building in Madrid was laid
1893: Queen Maria Cristina opens the new Madrid Stock Market
1937: General Emilio Mola was killed in a plane crash in Belorado, Burgos during the Spanish Civil War
1993: Spanish architect, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, wins the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts
2007: The MetroEste opens in Madrid
Tony Leblanc, Spanish actor, born 1922, Kim Manning, Spanish actress born in Alaska 1960, and in the same year, Spanish writer, Almudena Grandes.
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