History
Teófila and Castor. El Día de los Santos Inocentes, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the slaughter by King Herod the Great of all male children under the of two. It is also the Spanish equivalent of April Fool’s Day, when it is customary to play jokes.
Dec 28, 2017 - 7:36 AM
Spain On This Day - December 28
Teófila and Castor. El Día de los Santos Inocentes, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the slaughter by King Herod the Great of all male children under the of two. It is also the Spanish equivalent of April Fool’s Day, when it is customary to play jokes.
Dec 28, 2017 - 7:36 AM
0801 - Barcelona: Louis the Pious entered the city after deposing Muslims and started the Carolingian control of the city and county.
1287 - Alfonso III grants to the Aragonese nobility the privileges of the Union of Aragon.
1288 - Alfonso III establishes a commitment to partnership with the pretender to the throne Alfonso de la Cerda.
1833 - The Queen Regent, María Cristina de Borbón, whose daughter would later become Isabel II of Spain, marries Guards Captain Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez in secret, shortly after the death of her husband and uncle, Fernando VII.
1836 - Spain officially recognises the independence of Mexico.
1874 - Martinez Campos proclaimed Alfonso XII in Sagunto.
1901 - Jaime de Borbón suffered a car accident near Monte Carlo.
1922 - Comedy by Pardo Bazán 'metal calf' opens in Valladolid.
1923 - Spain, the Directory agrees to prohibit the teaching of Catalan in the official centers.
1926 - In Spain the economic agreement between the State and the Basque provinces, whose validity is of 25 years, is approved.
1929 - It opened in the Barcelona theater, the old city, the work 'Lola is going to the ports', by Manuel and Antonio Machado.
1956 - Six people died when the Madrid-Coruña express derailed.
1957 - In Madrid the Salk vaccine was used during voluntary vaccination campaign against polio.
1973 - From 1 January, the Asturian miners inside the mine will work 40 hours a week.
1978 - The new Spanish Constitution was published in the Official State Bulletin.
1982 - Congress of Deputies appoints ombudsman Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez.
1984 - A new law allowing conscientious objection to military service is published in the Official State Bulletin.
1993 - The Bank of Spain intervened in Banesto bank (under the direction of Mario Conde).
1995 - TV series Farmacia de Guardia ended with a 62.8% audience share and 11.527 million viewers, making it the most watched television in Spain.
2002 - 10,000 people protest in the beach of A Coruna (Spain) under the slogan "Never Again" and demanding accountability for the Prestige oil spill.
2005 - In Las Palmas (Canary Islands) the Spanish police detain the financial leader of the Clan Nuvoleta, one of the most wanted bosses of the Neapolitan mafia.
2010 - CNN+ closes.
Births
1550 - Vicente Espinel, writer and composer (b. 1624)
1745 - Juan de Ayala, marine (b. 1797)
1918 - Joaquín Jovellar Soler, politican.
1852 - The engineer and mathematician, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, who built Spain’s first dirigible, was born in Santa Cruz de Iguña Molledo, Cantabria.
1872 - Pio Baroja Nessi, writer of the Generation of 98. For a time practiced medicine.
1874 - María de la O Lejárraga García, writer and feminist.
1891 - Elvira de Hidalgo, coloratura soprano and teacher of Spanish song.
1899 - Edgar Neville, Swriter and diplomat.
1905 - Antonio Fraguas Forges, a writer, historian, anthropologist and ethnographer Spanish Galician ideology.
1909 - María Rosa Alonso, teacher, philologist and essayist (d. 2011)
1910 - Tomás Zarraonaindia, goalkeeper, brother of Telmo Zarra.
1912 - José Luis Cano, poet.
1917 - Ricardo Molina, poet (d. 1968)
1957 - Javier Arenas, ex-leader of the Partido Popular in Andalucía, and who headed three Ministries under the previous Partido Popular government in Spain, was born in Sevilla.
1958 - César Sarachu, actor.
1959 - Ana Torroja, singer-songwriter (Mecano)
1964 - Maite Zúñiga, runner
1971 - Sergi Barjuan, footballer.
1974 - Anxo Lorenzo, Basque bagpipe player.
Deaths
1696 - Miguel de Molinos, teologan (b. 1628)
1934 - Pablo Gargallo, sculptor.
1983 - Fidela Campiña Ontiveros, opera singer.
1994 - Mariano Medina, meteorologist (b. 1922)
1998 - Ricardo Tormo, motorbike rider.
2007 - Xosé Cuíña, Basque politician.
1287 - Alfonso III grants to the Aragonese nobility the privileges of the Union of Aragon.
1288 - Alfonso III establishes a commitment to partnership with the pretender to the throne Alfonso de la Cerda.
1833 - The Queen Regent, María Cristina de Borbón, whose daughter would later become Isabel II of Spain, marries Guards Captain Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez in secret, shortly after the death of her husband and uncle, Fernando VII.
Portrait of Queen Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies by Franz Xaver Winterhalter - Paris - 1841
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1836 - Spain officially recognises the independence of Mexico.
1874 - Martinez Campos proclaimed Alfonso XII in Sagunto.
1901 - Jaime de Borbón suffered a car accident near Monte Carlo.
1922 - Comedy by Pardo Bazán 'metal calf' opens in Valladolid.
1923 - Spain, the Directory agrees to prohibit the teaching of Catalan in the official centers.
1926 - In Spain the economic agreement between the State and the Basque provinces, whose validity is of 25 years, is approved.
1929 - It opened in the Barcelona theater, the old city, the work 'Lola is going to the ports', by Manuel and Antonio Machado.
1956 - Six people died when the Madrid-Coruña express derailed.
1957 - In Madrid the Salk vaccine was used during voluntary vaccination campaign against polio.
1973 - From 1 January, the Asturian miners inside the mine will work 40 hours a week.
1978 - The new Spanish Constitution was published in the Official State Bulletin.
1982 - Congress of Deputies appoints ombudsman Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez.
1984 - A new law allowing conscientious objection to military service is published in the Official State Bulletin.
1993 - The Bank of Spain intervened in Banesto bank (under the direction of Mario Conde).
1995 - TV series Farmacia de Guardia ended with a 62.8% audience share and 11.527 million viewers, making it the most watched television in Spain.
2002 - 10,000 people protest in the beach of A Coruna (Spain) under the slogan "Never Again" and demanding accountability for the Prestige oil spill.
2005 - In Las Palmas (Canary Islands) the Spanish police detain the financial leader of the Clan Nuvoleta, one of the most wanted bosses of the Neapolitan mafia.
2010 - CNN+ closes.
Births
1550 - Vicente Espinel, writer and composer (b. 1624)
1745 - Juan de Ayala, marine (b. 1797)
1918 - Joaquín Jovellar Soler, politican.
1852 - The engineer and mathematician, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, who built Spain’s first dirigible, was born in Santa Cruz de Iguña Molledo, Cantabria.
1872 - Pio Baroja Nessi, writer of the Generation of 98. For a time practiced medicine.
1874 - María de la O Lejárraga García, writer and feminist.
1891 - Elvira de Hidalgo, coloratura soprano and teacher of Spanish song.
1899 - Edgar Neville, Swriter and diplomat.
1905 - Antonio Fraguas Forges, a writer, historian, anthropologist and ethnographer Spanish Galician ideology.
1909 - María Rosa Alonso, teacher, philologist and essayist (d. 2011)
1910 - Tomás Zarraonaindia, goalkeeper, brother of Telmo Zarra.
1912 - José Luis Cano, poet.
1917 - Ricardo Molina, poet (d. 1968)
1957 - Javier Arenas, ex-leader of the Partido Popular in Andalucía, and who headed three Ministries under the previous Partido Popular government in Spain, was born in Sevilla.
1958 - César Sarachu, actor.
1959 - Ana Torroja, singer-songwriter (Mecano)
1964 - Maite Zúñiga, runner
1971 - Sergi Barjuan, footballer.
1974 - Anxo Lorenzo, Basque bagpipe player.
Deaths
1696 - Miguel de Molinos, teologan (b. 1628)
1934 - Pablo Gargallo, sculptor.
1983 - Fidela Campiña Ontiveros, opera singer.
1994 - Mariano Medina, meteorologist (b. 1922)
1998 - Ricardo Tormo, motorbike rider.
2007 - Xosé Cuíña, Basque politician.
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