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Saint’s Day for Sabino, Apiano, Marcelo and Raúl.
Dec 30, 2020 - 5:00 AM
Spain On This Day - December 30
Saint’s Day for Sabino, Apiano, Marcelo and Raúl.
Dec 30, 2020 - 5:00 AM
1066: Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
1831: Manuel Bretón de los Herreros releases "Marcela or which of the three?" in the Theater Principe of Madrid.
1833: The minister Javier de Burgos established the division of the country into 49 provinces.
1850: Juan Donoso Cortés denounces the administrative corruption, causing the resignation of Ramon Maria Narvaez and the appointment of Juan Bravo Murillo as president of the Council of Ministers.
1874: An interim government is led by Canovas del Castillo after the coup of Martinez Campos.
1885: Maria Christina of Austria, pregnant and recently widowed from Alfonso XII of Spain, swears allegiance to the Spanish Constitution and to the heir to the crown. She was Regent until her husband’s posthumous son, Alfonso XII, reached majority in 1902.
1902: The Spanish government sent warships to Tangier, which remain prepared to invade Morocco, which later will mark the beginning of the war in Morocco.
1927: The automatic telephone was inagurated in Zaragoza.
1992: The law ratifying the Maastricht Treaty, the Treaty of the European Union, comes into effect in Spain.
2004: the Plan Ibarretxe, named after the President of the Basque Country, Juan José Ibarretxe, achieves majority approval in the Basque parliament, proposing a new statute of autonomy to give the region more independence. It was defeated by a vote in the Spanish Congress the following year.
2006: an ETA bomb explodes in the Terminal 4 car park of Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing two people. It effectively put an end to the ceasefire which had been in place since March that year.
Births
1707: Joaquin Orti y Figuerola, Spanish jurist.
1895: José Bergamín, Spanish writer (d. 1983)
1911: Rafael Calvo, Spanish actor.
1925: Baltasar Rodríguez-Salinas, Spanish mathamatician.
1939: Fernando Ledesma, Spanish politican.
1946: Marc Forné Molné, politician and Andorran lawyer.
1952: Jesús Ferrero, Spanish writer.
1971: Ricardo, Spanish footballer and manager
1973: Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn actor, director, and producer
1974: María Esteve, Spanish actress.
Deaths
1808: José Moñino, Spanish politican.
1870: Juan Prim, Spanish soldier and politican.
1879: Adelardo López de Ayala, Spanish writer and politican.
1922: José Ortega Munilla, Spanish writer and journalist.
1998: Joan Brossa, poet, playwright and Spanish fine artist.
2000: Paco de Antequera, Spanish guitarist.
2007: Xaime Quesada Porto, painter, engraver, designer and Spanish artist.
2013: José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1934)

1831: Manuel Bretón de los Herreros releases "Marcela or which of the three?" in the Theater Principe of Madrid.
1833: The minister Javier de Burgos established the division of the country into 49 provinces.
1850: Juan Donoso Cortés denounces the administrative corruption, causing the resignation of Ramon Maria Narvaez and the appointment of Juan Bravo Murillo as president of the Council of Ministers.
1874: An interim government is led by Canovas del Castillo after the coup of Martinez Campos.
1885: Maria Christina of Austria, pregnant and recently widowed from Alfonso XII of Spain, swears allegiance to the Spanish Constitution and to the heir to the crown. She was Regent until her husband’s posthumous son, Alfonso XII, reached majority in 1902.
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1902: The Spanish government sent warships to Tangier, which remain prepared to invade Morocco, which later will mark the beginning of the war in Morocco.
1927: The automatic telephone was inagurated in Zaragoza.
1992: The law ratifying the Maastricht Treaty, the Treaty of the European Union, comes into effect in Spain.
2004: the Plan Ibarretxe, named after the President of the Basque Country, Juan José Ibarretxe, achieves majority approval in the Basque parliament, proposing a new statute of autonomy to give the region more independence. It was defeated by a vote in the Spanish Congress the following year.
2006: an ETA bomb explodes in the Terminal 4 car park of Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing two people. It effectively put an end to the ceasefire which had been in place since March that year.
Births
1707: Joaquin Orti y Figuerola, Spanish jurist.
1895: José Bergamín, Spanish writer (d. 1983)
1911: Rafael Calvo, Spanish actor.
1925: Baltasar Rodríguez-Salinas, Spanish mathamatician.
1939: Fernando Ledesma, Spanish politican.
1946: Marc Forné Molné, politician and Andorran lawyer.
1952: Jesús Ferrero, Spanish writer.
1971: Ricardo, Spanish footballer and manager
1973: Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn actor, director, and producer
1974: María Esteve, Spanish actress.
Deaths
1808: José Moñino, Spanish politican.
1870: Juan Prim, Spanish soldier and politican.
1879: Adelardo López de Ayala, Spanish writer and politican.
1922: José Ortega Munilla, Spanish writer and journalist.
1998: Joan Brossa, poet, playwright and Spanish fine artist.
2000: Paco de Antequera, Spanish guitarist.
2007: Xaime Quesada Porto, painter, engraver, designer and Spanish artist.
2013: José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1934)

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