April 28
Saints Days – Pedro Chanel, Teodora, Valeria, Marcos, Eusebio and Prudencio
Fiesta in the city of Vitoria today for San Prudence
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
1625 - A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch-Portuguese War
1832 -The hangman’s noose was replaced by the garrotte for executions in Spain
1934 - Ricardo Samper is elected president of government of the Second Spanish Republic.
1977 - Unions UGT, USO and CCOO were made legal
1981- Definitive approval of the statute for the region of Galicia.
1934 - Ricardo Samper is elected president of government of the Second Spanish Republic.
1977 - Unions UGT, USO and CCOO were made legal
1981- Definitive approval of the statute for the region of Galicia.
Penelope Cruz - Archive photo
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.
1996 - Spanish architect Rafael Moneo won the Pritzker Prize for architecture, the first Spaniard to do so.
2024 - Granada's Sierra Nevada ski and mountain resort closed its 2023/24 season on Sunday 28 April with 1,100,945 users - the seventh highest overall number in its history.
Births
1589 - Margarita de Saboya, aristocrat (d. 1655)
1770 - Rita Luna, Actress (d. 1832)
1777 - Jose Primo de Rivera and Ortiz de Pinedo, Soldier (d. 1853)
1818 - Jose Maria Montoto Lopez-Vigil, writer and jurist (d. 1886).
1821 - Melchor Garcia Sampedro,bishop (d. 1858).
It has been a season marked by adverse weather conditions, with scarce snowfall early on in winter, followed by heavy snow storms which produced the best skiing days, but which, on the other hand, forced the closure of the facilities for 14 days (plus three partial closures), one of the highest figures in the historical series.
2025 - The massive blackout cut internet and telephone connections, halted trains, shut businesses and plunged cities into darkness across Spain and Portugal for up to 10 hours. It also briefly affected southwestern France
The report commissioned by the association of electricity grid operators ENTSO-E cited the Iberian electricity system's inability to control overvoltage events as a "key" factor, but stressed it was not the only one.
"There is no single cause. It was a perfect storm of multiple factors that contributed to the outage," Damian Cortinas, the president of the association, said during a presentation of the report by 49 European experts.
It was "the largest and most severe blackout we have ever experienced in the European electricity system in more than 20 years," Cortinas said.
The report described a series of voltage fluctuations that led to widespread disconnections of power generation in Spain, particularly among converter-based systems commonly used in renewable energy.
These installations, the report said, were too rigid in operation to adapt to sudden increases in voltage.
Grid operators such as Spain's REE were faulted for a lack of real-time monitoring, with the report noting that no risk was identified even as voltage levels approached critical thresholds.
Births
1589 - Margarita de Saboya, aristocrat (d. 1655)
1770 - Rita Luna, Actress (d. 1832)
1777 - Jose Primo de Rivera and Ortiz de Pinedo, Soldier (d. 1853)
1818 - Jose Maria Montoto Lopez-Vigil, writer and jurist (d. 1886).
1821 - Melchor Garcia Sampedro,bishop (d. 1858).
1845 - José Ramiro de la Puente y González Nandín, Marqués de Alta Villa sometimes Altavilla, was a Spanish grande and writer on Madrid, exiled for much of the later part of his life in Paris. (d. 1909)
1851 - Vital Aza, Comic dramatist (d. 1912)
1917 - Valentin García Yebra, writer and academic (d. 2010)
1928 - Alberto Blancafort, Conductor and composer,
1934 - Javier Pradera, writer and political analyst (d. 2011).
1941 - Ivà, draftsman (d. 1993).
1942 - Francisco Rico Manrique,philologist.
1957 - Poli Rincón, footballer
1851 - Vital Aza, Comic dramatist (d. 1912)
1917 - Valentin García Yebra, writer and academic (d. 2010)
1928 - Alberto Blancafort, Conductor and composer,
1934 - Javier Pradera, writer and political analyst (d. 2011).
1941 - Ivà, draftsman (d. 1993).
1942 - Francisco Rico Manrique,philologist.
1957 - Poli Rincón, footballer
1957 - Pedro María Azpiazu Uriarte ( born in Bilbao) is a Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) politician who represents Biscay Province in the Spanish Congress of Deputies, where he serves as a PNV spokesman
1974 - Penelope Cruz, actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno) born in Madrid
1985 - Nausicaa Bonnín, actress.
1988 - Juan Manuel Mata, footballer. (Manchester United) born in Burgos
Deaths
1810 - Francisco Cabarrús, Spanish financier and politician of French origin. (b. 1752)
1866 - José María López y Rastrollo, politician. (b. 1798)
1920 - Augusto Miranda y Godoy, soldier and politician (b. 1855).
1976 - Jesús Pabón y Suárez de Urbina, Writer and historian (b. 1902)
1995 - Santiago Lagunas, painter and architect. (b 1912)
2000 - Dramatist and academic, Antonio Buero Vallejo (b. 1916)
2002 - Diosdado Simón, researcher, biologist, botanist, arborist and environmental educator. (b. 1954)
2005 - Raimon Galí writer and historian (b. 1917)
2009 - Javier Ortiz, journalist (b. 1948).
2012 - Matilde Camus, writer and poet (b. 1919).
1974 - Penelope Cruz, actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno) born in Madrid
1985 - Nausicaa Bonnín, actress.
1988 - Juan Manuel Mata, footballer. (Manchester United) born in Burgos
Deaths
1810 - Francisco Cabarrús, Spanish financier and politician of French origin. (b. 1752)
1866 - José María López y Rastrollo, politician. (b. 1798)
1920 - Augusto Miranda y Godoy, soldier and politician (b. 1855).
1976 - Jesús Pabón y Suárez de Urbina, Writer and historian (b. 1902)
1995 - Santiago Lagunas, painter and architect. (b 1912)
2000 - Dramatist and academic, Antonio Buero Vallejo (b. 1916)
2002 - Diosdado Simón, researcher, biologist, botanist, arborist and environmental educator. (b. 1954)
2005 - Raimon Galí writer and historian (b. 1917)
2009 - Javier Ortiz, journalist (b. 1948).
2012 - Matilde Camus, writer and poet (b. 1919).
2021 - El Risitas, comedian (b. 1956)
