Spain On This Day - November 22
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By m.p. - Nov 21, 2007 - 11:27 PM
Saint’s Day for Cecilia, Ananías, Mauro, Marcos and Filemón.

1462: is commemorated as the day the Romani people first arrived in Andalucía.

1934: the pilot, Ramón Torres, sets off for Africa, and becomes the first Spanish aviator to cross the Sahara Desert.

1975: Don Juan Carlos de Borbón is proclaimed Juan Carlos I of Spain, two days after the death of General Franco.

The Spanish bacteriologist who discovered the first vaccine against cholera, Jaume Ferran i Clua, died on this day in 1929, and Beatriz de Borbón y Battenberg, aunt to King Juan Carlos I of Spain, died at the age of 93 in Rome in 2002.

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