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Spain On This Day - May 18
By m.p. - May 18, 2008 - 8:28 AM
email this articleSaints Days: Féliz de Cantalicio, Venancio and Juan, La Santísima Trinidad
1499: A fleet of four boats leaves from Puerto de Santa María in Cádiz, commanded by Américo Vespucio and Juan de la Cosa, and makes it way to the coasts of Surinam, near Brazil
Hisham II, Caliph of Córdoba dies 1013 this day, as did poet Alonso de Bonilla in 1642.
Composer Isaac Albéniz, died this day 1909.
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