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Spain On This Day - August 16
By m.p. - Aug 16, 2008 - 9:52 PM

Saints Days : Esteban de Hungría, Eleuterio, Arsacio and Roque

1097: Marriage of Pedro I of Aragón with his second wife Berta in Huesca

1114: Ramón Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, conquers Ibiza

1918: The first two National Parks are created – Peña Santa in Covadonga, Asturias and Ordesa in the Pyrenees

1927: An agreement between Spain and Portugal on the hydroelectric use of the Duero River

1936: Republican forces arrive in Mallorca

1965: Postal Train accident in Almería causes 10 deaths and 53 wounded

1966: The recovery of the hydrogen bomb which fell into the sea cost 320 million pesetas

1968: The Bilbao Bishopric is occupied by 40 priests, in protest at the arrest of priests in the Basque Country

1974: 30,000 British tourists are affected in Spain by the collapse of the British company Court Line

1980: Gas explosion causes 26 injuries in a hotel in Pontevedra

1981: Lord Carrington arrives in Spain for talks on Gibraltar

2001: Emilio Botín becomes the single President of Banco Santander

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