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History

Spain On This Day - January 22


Saint’s Day for Vicente, Roroncio, Víctor and Gaudencio.



Jan 22, 2022 - 12:12 AM
1188 - In the Kingdom of Leon, Alfonso IX is proclaimed king after the death of his father Fernando II.
1809 - The Central Board of Seville declares that the Spanish colonies in America "are not properly colonies or factories, like those of other nations, but an essential and independent of the Spanish monarchy."
1810 - Jerónimo Merino whose guerrilla acts on communications between Burgos and Valladolid, surprise a French division near the town of Dueñas, falling into the ambush over 1500 men.
1910 - Begins the return of Spanish troops who fought in the campaign of Morocco.
1921 - In Spain, the government establishes mandatory workers' compensation for all workers.
1926 - The Spanish Air Force hydroplane, ‘Plus Ultra,’ takes off from Palos de la Frontera, Huelva province, landing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 26th of the month, in the first Transatlantic flight between Europe and South America.

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1931 - The telephone service in Spain between the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands starts running.
1972 - The businessman Lorenzo Zabala is released three days after he was taken hostage by ETA.
1993 - The prison officer José Ramón Domínguez is shot dead by ETA terrorists in San Sebastián.
1994 - One hundred scholars of the Spanish language of 20 of the 22 existing in the world urge institutions in Huelva (Andalusia) to their respective governments to defend the Spanish language and culture.
2004 - the Junta de Andalucía announces that agreement has been reached with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm to provide cell lines for research.
2015 - Luis Bárcenas leaves prison after his family paid €200,000

Births
1665 - Sebastian de Jesus, Franciscan friar (d. 1743).
1852 - Francisco Fernández Iparraguirre, pharmacist, botanist and linguist (d. 1889).
1909 - Faustino Cordón, biologist (d. 1999).
1917 - Jose Luis Molinuevo, football goalkeeper (d. 2002)
1927 - Juan Guerrero Zamora, director of Television (d. 2002).
1930 - Mariví Bilbao, actress (d. 2013)
1933 - Carlos Revilla, dubbing actor (d. 2000).
1959 - José Luis Castrillo, painter.
1970 - Abraham Olano, champion cylist who won the World Road Race Championship in 1995 and the Vuelta a España in 1998, was born in Anoeta, Guipúzcoa.
1983 - Iban Zubiaurre, footballer.
1990 - Laura Ester, waterpolo player.
1993 - Daniel Alcala Garcia, writer.


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Deaths
1636 - Gregorio Fernández, sculptor (b. 1576).
1755 - Antoni Viladomat i Manalt, baroque painter (b. 1678).
1981 - Maria Moliner, philologist (b.1900).
2007 - Ramón Marsal, footballer (b. 1937).
2013 - Maria Gomez Valbuena, nun of the Sisters of Charity; imputed in the case of stolen children (b. 1925).


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