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1936 In Spain
Incumbents *President: Manuel Azaña *Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister: Santiago Casares Quiroga until July 19, Francisco Largo Caballero Events *July 17–18 – July 1936 military uprising in Melilla *July 18–25 – July 1936 military uprising in Seville *July 18–20 – Siege of Cuartel de la Montaña *July 19 – July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona *July 19–27 – Siege of Cuartel de Loyola *July 19-August 16 – Siege of Gijón *July 19-October 16 – Siege of Oviedo *July 20-23 – July 1936 coup d'état in Granada *July 21-September 27 – Siege of the Alcázar *August 14 – Battle of Badajoz (1936) *August 19-September 5 – Battle of Irún *September 3 – Battle of Talavera de la Reina (1936) Births *7 March – Antonio Mercero, film director and screenwriter (d. 2018) *15 March – Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, cartoonist and writer (d. 2023) *4 May – El Cordobés, matador *18 May – Francisco Laína, politician (b. 2022) *3 July – Jerónimo Saa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña Díaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (Spain), President of the Republic (1936–1939). He was the most prominent leader of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. A published author in the 1910s, he stood out in the Allies of World War I, pro-Allies camp during World War I. He was sharply critical towards the Generation of '98, the reimagination of the Spanish Middle Ages, Imperial Spain and the 20th century yearnings for a praetorian refurbishment of the country. Azaña followed instead the examples of the French Enlightenment and the Third French Republic, and took a political quest for democracy in the 1920s while defending the notion of homeland as the "democratic equality of all citizens towards the law" that made h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Mercero
Antonio Mercero Juldain (7 March 1936 – 12 May 2018) was a Spanish director of the television series '' Verano azul'' and '' Farmacia de guardia''. He is best known as the director of a 1972 surrealist short horror film titled '' La cabina'', which won an Emmy Award. His 1998 film '' A Time for Defiance'' was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver St. George. In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Goya Award (Goya de Honor). He died on 12 May 2018 in Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ... at the age of 82 after a battle against Alzheimer's. Cinema filmography * ''Trotin Troteras'' (1962) * ''Leccion de arte'' (1962) * ''Tajamar'' (1970) * '' La cabina'' (1972) * ''Manchas de sangre en un coche nuevo'' (1975) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Spain
The following lists events that happened during 1998 in Spain. Incumbents *Monarch – Juan Carlos I *Prime Minister of Spain – José María Aznar Events *31 January — The 12th Goya Awards are held in Madrid and '' Lucky Star'' is awarded as best film. *16 April – L'Hemisfèric is inaugurated in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences. *25 April — A holding dam bursts in the Province of Seville, releasing 4–5 million cubic metres of mine tailings causing the Doñana disaster. *30 May — Caesium-137 leaked from an Acerinox plant in Los Barrios, causing radioactive contamination in the Acerinox accident. *25 September — PauknAir Flight 4101 crashes on a flight from Málaga to Melilla. All 38 passengers and crew perish. *25 October — The Basque regional election is held, creating the 6th Basque Parliament. Births January *1 January ** Marta García, runner ** Asier Gomes *2 January – Manu García, footballer *5 January — Carles Aleñá, footballer *6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Abril Martorell
Fernando Abril Martorell (31 August 1936 – 16 February 1998) was a Spanish politician and agricultural engineer. Biography Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1936, he studied Agricultural Engineering and Political Sciences in Madrid, later obtaining a doctorate in both. In 1969 he was named a president of the Diputación Provincial de Segovia (Provincial Delegation of Segovia) and was appointed a civil governor by Adolfo Suárez. After this, he was a technical director of the FORPPA (1971-1972) and a director of general Agrarian Production (1972-1974). He was appointed a Minister of Agriculture in Spain from (1976-1977), a member of the Senate (1977-1979), and he was one of the founders of Unión de Centro Democrático (Union Democratic Center) (UCD). He was elected regional president of it in Valencia Province. He was the third Vice-president of the government for Political Subjects (1977-1978) and the second vice president Minister of Economy (1978-1980). He was one of the wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infanta Pilar, Duchess Of Badajoz
Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz and Viscountess of La Torre (Spanish language, Spanish: ''María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón''; 30 July 1936 – 8 January 2020), sometimes known more simply as Pilar de Borbón, was the elder daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess María Mercedes of the Two Sicilies, and older sister of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Juan Carlos I. Early life Infanta Pilar was the firstborn daughter of Juan de Borbón y Battenberg and María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orleans, Counts of Barcelona, she was born in Ville Saint Blaise, home of the counts of Barcelona in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes, France), on 30 July 1936. She was baptized in Cannes, in the church of Rins, with the name of ''María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón''. Her godparents were her paternal gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 July
Events Pre-1600 * 762 – Baghdad is founded. * 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. * 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1601–1900 *1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies. * 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time. * 1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy. * 1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army. * 1645 – English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerónimo Saavedra
Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo (3 July 1936 – 21 November 2023) was a Spanish politician and academic. He served as President of the Canary Islands twice, from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 1993. He became the first president of the Canary Islands after the establishment of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities system under the 1978 Constitution and was in charge of structuring the regional administration and overseeing the democratic transition in the islands. Saavedra also served as Ministry of Territorial Policy, Minister of Public Administrations of Spain between 1993 and 1995 and as Ministry of Education (Spain), Minister of Education and Science of Spain between 1995 and 1996. He was a member of the Congress of Deputies in the constituent legislature until 1983, a Senate of Spain, senator twice and mayor of his hometown Las Palmas de Gran Canaria between 2007 and 2011. Saavedra was a significant figure in LGBT history in Spain, Spanish LGBT hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 July
Events Pre-1600 * 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. * 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792. *1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigning until 1087. 1601–1900 *1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain. * 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. * 1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. * 1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, '' Adresseavisen'', is founded and the first edition is published. * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. *1778 – American Revolutionary War: The Iroquois, allied with Britain, kil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Laína
Francisco Laína García (18 May 1936 – 7 January 2022) was a Spanish politician, who was the Director of State Security during the coup d'état of 23 February 1981. For 14 hours he headed the provisional government of Spain while Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez's government was sequestered in the Congress of Deputies. Biography and career Laína was born in La Carrera, Province of Ávila, Spain, on 18 May 1936. He graduated in Law and joined the General State Administration as a member of the General Technical Body in 1965 after passing the competitive examination. In 1974 he was appointed civil governor and provincial head of the Movimiento Nacional in León. Laína held this position until 1976, when he was appointed civil governor of Las Palmas. Under his mandate, the armed Canary Islands Independence Movement was practically dismantled in that province in 1977. However, Laina was relieved in 1977 of his duties because of his disagreements with the mayor of Las Palma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18 May
Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I. *1096 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany. * 1152 – The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England. * 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. * 1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land. * 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia. * 1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa Citizen
The ''Ottawa Citizen'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History Established as the Bytown ''Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the ''Citizen'' in 1851. The newspaper's original motto, which has recently been returned to the editorial page, was ''Fair Play and Day-Light''. The paper has been through a number of owners. In 1846, Harris sold the paper to John Bell (journalist), John Gordon Bell and Henry J. Friel. Robert Bell (1821-73), Robert Bell bought the paper in 1849, and sold it to I.B. Taylor in 1861. In 1877, Charles Herbert Mackintosh became the principal owner, and he later sold it to Robert and Lewis Shannon. In 1897, the ''Citizen'' became one of several papers owned by the Southam Newspapers, Southam family. It remained under Southam until the chain was purchased by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. in 1996. In 2000, the chain was sold to Canwest, Canwest Global, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Cordobés
Manuel Benítez Pérez (born 4 May 1936), more commonly known as ''El Cordobés'' (The Cordovan), is a Spanish matador, and actor active in the 1960s who brought an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style to the bullring. Career One of the original techniques practiced by El Cordobés was first shown at Anjucar. He waved his ''banderilla'' (Columpio) away, broke his banderillas down to 'pencil length', and standing with his back to the bull as it charged, moved his right leg out moments before the bull was upon him, causing the bull to swerve and allowing El Cordobés a moment to slam in the banderillas from just behind the left horn. This maneuver was repeated in bullfights across Spain, sometimes with even more dangerous variations, such as standing with his back to the barerra and driving in the banderillas after the horns passed either side of him. On May 20, 1964, when he made his first appearance at Las Ventas in Madrid, the bullfight ended with the near-fatal goring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
