Pedro Sánchez appeared before the Spanish Senate over the Koldo affair, repeating the same phrase again and again: “I do not recall.” This article examines how cowardice has become Spain’s political method of survival — a government ruled by panic, denial and moral emptiness, where even the truth seems like an act of rebellion.
- 1276 Jaime I of Aragón dies in Alcira, Valencia.
- 1309 Reconquista: King Fernando IV of Castile breaks the truce he had signed with Muhammad III of Granada and lays siege to Algeciras.
- 1513 King Ferdinand appoints Pedro Arias Davila administrator of the new governorate of Castilla de Oro (Panama).
- 1549 St Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary, arrives on the coast of Japan.
- 1649 The Bank of England is founded
- 1723 The Palace of La Granja (Segovia) is completed and blessed.
- 1909 Spanish troops suffer a heavy defeat during the 2nd Melilla Campaign in the day known as the Desastre del Barranco del Lobo.
- 1923 The first issue of the Revista de Occidente, founded and directed by José Ortega y Gasset until 1936, appears in Madrid.
- 1941 Peru uses an airborne and paratroop attack for the first time in the Western Hemisphere to take Puerto Bolivar during the Peruvian-Ecuadorian war.
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