History
Spain On This Day - April 29
By m.p.
Apr 29, 2008 - 7:05 AM

1729 – The Mozos de Veciana, better known as the Mossos de Esquadra are given official character as the regional police force in Cataluña by Felipe V.

1814 – The French withdraw from Barcelona in the Spanish War of Independence

1922 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal retired from his academic functions and is named honorary rector of the University of Madrid

1923 – The last election of Deputies to the Courts of the Spanish Monarchy were held before the Civil War.

1927 – The Madrid – Lisbon – Seville airline was opened.

1931 – The Spanish cabinet authorised the use of Catalan in Cataluña primary schools.

1935 – The first edition of the Vuelta España cycle race.

1984 – Jordi Pujol from Convergencia I Unió won an overall majority in the Catalan regional elections.

1994 – The ex Director General of the Guadria Civil, Luis Roldán goes on the run.

2004 – Aragon became the third region of Spain, after Navarra and the Basque Country to recognise the right of homosexual couples to adopt.

2005 – Esther Yáñez González-Irúb became the first woman to command a Spanish navy war boat – the Laya d. patrol vessel.

Births:
1824 : Francisco Pi y Margall, Spanish President, politician and writer was born. 1930: Miguel Ángel Riera – Spanish writer, 1951: María Kosti – Spanish actress. 2007: - Sofia de Borbón – Infanta

The Spanish gymnast Joaquín Blume died in 1959.