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Spain On This Day - May 7
By m.p. - May 7, 2008 - 6:23 AM
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Saints days – Benedicto II, Augusto, Agustín, Juvenal, Cuadrado and Flavio.
1704: Pedro II, King of Portugal, named the Archduke of Habsburg, Carlos as his successor to become Carlos III

1714: The Catalans survived an attack on Barcelona by the Royal troops in the war of Spanish succession

1810: The battle of Galera, Granada, in the war of independence

1891: The foundation stone for the Spanish Royal Academy building in Madrid was laid

1893: Queen Maria Cristina opens the new Madrid Stock Market

1937: General Emilio Mola was killed in a plane crash in Belorado, Burgos during the Spanish Civil War

1993: Spanish architect, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, wins the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts

2007: The MetroEste opens in Madrid

Tony Leblanc, Spanish actor, born 1922, Kim Manning, Spanish actress born in Alaska 1960, and in the same year, Spanish writer, Almudena Grandes.


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