History
Spain On This Day - January 6
By m.p.
Jan 6, 2008 - 9:37 AM

1494: Spanish settlers celebrate mass for the first time in the New World in the church in La Isabela, in what is now the Dominican Republic. It is considered the first formal European settlement of the New World.

1542: the city of Mérida is founded by the conquistador Francisco de Montejo. It is now the state capital of Yucatán in Mexico.

1848: General Serrano disembarks on the Islas Chafarinas, an archipelago of three small islets 4 kms of the coast of Morocco, and takes them for Spain. They are now protected by Spain as a National Reserve.

1937: the United States passes an arms embargo on both sides in the Spanish Civil War.

The journalist Rosa María Mateo was born in Burgos in 1943. She began her career with Radio Nacional de España and went on to present news programmes for TVE 2, TVE 1, and Antena 3 Televisión.