History
Spain On This Day - April 28
By m.p.
Apr 28, 2008 - 7:19 AM

Fiesta in the city of Vitoria today for San Prudencio

796: After the death of Hisham 1, his son, Al-Hakam 1 was proclaimed emir of Córdoba.
1484: Pedro de Vera conquered the island of Gran Canaria
1832: The hangman’s noose was replaced by the garrotte for executions in Spain
1977: Unions UGT, USO and CCOO were made legal
1981: Definitive approval of the statute for the region of Galicia.
1994: Poet Carlos Bousoño was presented with the Prince of Asturias prize for literature.
1996: Spanish architect Rafael Moneo won the Pritzker Prize for architecture, the first Spaniard to do so.

The Spanish aristocrat Margarita de Saboya was born in 1589. Actress Rita Luna in 1770, and comic dramatist Vital Aza in 1851.
The writer and academic Valentin García Yebra was born in 1917.
Conductor and composer, Alberto Blancafort was born in 1928.
Footballer Poli Rincón born 1957.
Penelope Cruz born 1974.

Writer and historian Jesús Pabón y Suárez de Urbina died on this day in 1976, and Santiago Lagunas, painter and architect died in 1995. Dramatist and academic, Antonio Buero Vallejo died in 2000, and writer Raimon Galí died 2005.