On This Day
- 1503 Battle of Cerignola (Italy).
- 1522 Santiago de Cuba is granted the city status by Carlos I.
- 1589 Margarita de Saboya is born.
- 1611 Archbishop Miguel de Benavides founded the University of St Thomas in Manila.
- 1777 José Primo de Rivera, Hero of the Sieges, was born in Algeciras.
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