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Spain On This Day - December 14
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By m.p. - Dec 14, 2007 - 1:37 AM
Saint’s Day for Nicasio, Justo, Arsenio, Isidoro and Juan de la Cruz.
1788: Carlos IV ascends to the Spanish throne on the death of his father Carlos III.
1927: Iberia’s first commercial flight, from Carabanchel aerodrome in Madrid to Barcelona.
1930: Captains Miguel Ángel García Hernández and Fermín Galan are executed for the mutiny of the garrison at Jaca.
1947: the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, home of Real Madrid, is inaugurated with a match against Os Belenenses.
1955: Spain is admitted to the United Nations.
1988: the first general strike of democratic Spain achieves massive support.
The former Defence Minister and President of Castilla-La Mancha for more than two decades, José Bono, was born in Salobre, Albacete, on this day in 1950, and Vicente Aleixandre, who was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature, died in 1984.
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Spain On This Day - December 14
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By m.p. - Dec 14, 2007 - 1:37 AM
Saint’s Day for Nicasio, Justo, Arsenio, Isidoro and Juan de la Cruz.
1788: Carlos IV ascends to the Spanish throne on the death of his father Carlos III.
1927: Iberia’s first commercial flight, from Carabanchel aerodrome in Madrid to Barcelona.
1930: Captains Miguel Ángel García Hernández and Fermín Galan are executed for the mutiny of the garrison at Jaca.
1947: the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, home of Real Madrid, is inaugurated with a match against Os Belenenses.
1955: Spain is admitted to the United Nations.
1988: the first general strike of democratic Spain achieves massive support.
The former Defence Minister and President of Castilla-La Mancha for more than two decades, José Bono, was born in Salobre, Albacete, on this day in 1950, and Vicente Aleixandre, who was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Literature, died in 1984.
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