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Saints Days – Pedro Chanel, Teodora, Valeria, Marcos, Eusebio and Prudencio
Apr 28, 2022 - 2:36 AM
Spain On This Day - April 28
Saints Days – Pedro Chanel, Teodora, Valeria, Marcos, Eusebio and Prudencio
Apr 28, 2022 - 2:36 AM
Fiesta in the city of Vitoria today for San Prudenci
796 - After the death of Hisham 1, his son, Al-Hakam 1 was proclaimed emir of Córdoba.
1484 - Pedro de Vera conquered the island of Gran Canaria
1832 -The hangman’s noose was replaced by the garrotte for executions in Spain
1934 - Ricardo Samper is elected president of government of the Second Spanish Republic.
1977 - Unions UGT, USO and CCOO were made legal
1981: Definitive approval of the statute for the region of Galicia.
1994 - Poet Carlos Bousoño was presented with the Prince of Asturias prize for literature.
1996 - Spanish architect Rafael Moneo won the Pritzker Prize for architecture, the first Spaniard to do so.
Births
1589 - Margarita de Saboya, aristocrat
1770 - Rita Luna, Actress
1777 - Jose Primo de Rivera and Ortiz de Pinedo, Soldier
1818 - Jose Maria Montoto Lopez-Vigil, writer and jurist (d. 1886).
1821 - Melchor Garcia Sampedro,bishop (d. 1858).
1851 - Vital Aza, Comic dramatist
1917 - Valentin García Yebra, writer and academic
1928 - Alberto Blancafort, Conductor and composer,
1934 - Javier Pradera, writer and political analyst (d. 2011).
1941 - Ivà, draftsman (d. 1993).
1942 - Francisco Rico Manrique,philologist.
1957 - Poli Rincón, footballer
1974 - Penelope Cruz, actress
1985 - Nausicaa Bonnín, actress.
1988 - Juan Manuel Mata, footballer.
Deaths
1810 - Francisco Cabarrús, Spanish financier and politician of French origin.
1866 - José María López y Rastrollo, politician.
1920 - Augusto Miranda y Godoy, soldier and politician (b. 1855).
1976 - Jesús Pabón y Suárez de Urbina, Writer and historian
1995 - Santiago Lagunas, painter and architect.
2000 - Dramatist and academic, Antonio Buero Vallejo
2002 - Diosdado Simón, researcher, biologist, botanist, arborist and environmental educator.
2005 - Raimon Galí writer
2009 - Javier Ortiz, journalist (b. 1948).
2012 - Matilde Camus, writer and poet (b. 1919).
796 - After the death of Hisham 1, his son, Al-Hakam 1 was proclaimed emir of Córdoba.
1484 - Pedro de Vera conquered the island of Gran Canaria
1832 -The hangman’s noose was replaced by the garrotte for executions in Spain
1934 - Ricardo Samper is elected president of government of the Second Spanish Republic.
1977 - Unions UGT, USO and CCOO were made legal
1981: Definitive approval of the statute for the region of Galicia.
Penelope Cruz - Archive photo
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1994 - Poet Carlos Bousoño was presented with the Prince of Asturias prize for literature.
1996 - Spanish architect Rafael Moneo won the Pritzker Prize for architecture, the first Spaniard to do so.
Births
1589 - Margarita de Saboya, aristocrat
1770 - Rita Luna, Actress
1777 - Jose Primo de Rivera and Ortiz de Pinedo, Soldier
1818 - Jose Maria Montoto Lopez-Vigil, writer and jurist (d. 1886).
1821 - Melchor Garcia Sampedro,bishop (d. 1858).
1851 - Vital Aza, Comic dramatist
1917 - Valentin García Yebra, writer and academic
1928 - Alberto Blancafort, Conductor and composer,
1934 - Javier Pradera, writer and political analyst (d. 2011).
1941 - Ivà, draftsman (d. 1993).
1942 - Francisco Rico Manrique,philologist.
1957 - Poli Rincón, footballer
1974 - Penelope Cruz, actress
1985 - Nausicaa Bonnín, actress.
1988 - Juan Manuel Mata, footballer.
Deaths
1810 - Francisco Cabarrús, Spanish financier and politician of French origin.
1866 - José María López y Rastrollo, politician.
1920 - Augusto Miranda y Godoy, soldier and politician (b. 1855).
1976 - Jesús Pabón y Suárez de Urbina, Writer and historian
1995 - Santiago Lagunas, painter and architect.
2000 - Dramatist and academic, Antonio Buero Vallejo
2002 - Diosdado Simón, researcher, biologist, botanist, arborist and environmental educator.
2005 - Raimon Galí writer
2009 - Javier Ortiz, journalist (b. 1948).
2012 - Matilde Camus, writer and poet (b. 1919).
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