July 13
Saints Days: Enrique, Anacleto, Serapio and Sara - Festival of the Vaquillas (Teruel)
1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
1586 - Anglo-Spanish War, A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company manage to repel a fleet of eleven Spanish and Maltese galleys off the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria
2023 - The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced it will receive a mobile hospital and vehicles for the evacuation of the wounded as part of an aid package from Spain.
Medical personnel of the State Border Guard Service is currently being trained at an air base near Zaragoza, Spain to deploy and operate the mobile hospital, the press statement said.
Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles informed the head of the State Border Guard Service Serhii Deineko of the transfer in a video conference.
Miguel Ángel Blanco - photo www.20minutos.es
Births
1484 - Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, jure uxoris Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo (Spanish: Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, Marqués de Villafranca del Bierzo; The first effective Spanish viceroy of Naples, in 1532–1552, he was responsible for considerable social, economic and urban change in the city and southern Italian kingdom, in general. (d. 1553)
1838 - Camilo García de Polavieja y del Castillo-Negrete, 1st Marquis of Polavieja was a Spanish general born in Madrid, in a family of merchants. He was an able commander, but considered as brutal as Valeriano Weyler of Cuba. (d. 1914)
1865 - Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was the Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order. (d. 1916)
1925 - Gustavo Torner, artist.
1941 - Txema Blasco, Basque actor.
1865 - Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was the Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order. (d. 1916)
1925 - Gustavo Torner, artist.
1941 - Txema Blasco, Basque actor.
1949 - Ramón Barea, Basque actor, playwright, theater director and filmmaker. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1981.
1959 - Carla Delgado Gómez (born in Güímar, Tenerife, Canary Islands) is a Canarian-Spanish actress who uses the stage name Carla Antonelli. She is also a noted LGBT rights activist who maintains a large support website for transgender people, and a politician serving in the Madrid Assembly, the first trans person to serve in a legislature in Spain.
1965 - Juan José Artero, actor.
1966 - José Daniel Barquero Cabrero ( born in Barcelona) is a businessman and university teacher.
1980 - Daniel Cifuentes Alfaro, footballer.
1980 - Daniel Cifuentes Alfaro, footballer.
Deaths
1914 - Camilo García de Polavieja, soldier (b. 1838)
1936 - José Calvo Sotelo, politician and lawyer.1976 - Jesús Rubio García-Mina, politician (b. 1908).
1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Partido Popular Councillor in Ermua in the Basque Country is killed by ETA after three days of kidnapping On 10 July 1997, Blanco was kidnapped by ETA on his way to see a client. They threatened to assassinate him unless the Spanish Government started transferring all ETA prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country within 48 hours. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in demonstrations throughout Spain, demanding his release, but 50 minutes after the deadline expired, at 16:50 on 12 July, he was shot in the back of the head. Shortly thereafter, he was found on the outskirts of San Sebastián, with his hands tied, dying. He died in the hospital at 4:30 a.m. on 13 July. He is interred in Faramontaos, A Merca, with his parents..(b. 1968)
1914 - Camilo García de Polavieja, soldier (b. 1838)
1936 - José Calvo Sotelo, politician and lawyer.1976 - Jesús Rubio García-Mina, politician (b. 1908).
1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Partido Popular Councillor in Ermua in the Basque Country is killed by ETA after three days of kidnapping On 10 July 1997, Blanco was kidnapped by ETA on his way to see a client. They threatened to assassinate him unless the Spanish Government started transferring all ETA prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country within 48 hours. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in demonstrations throughout Spain, demanding his release, but 50 minutes after the deadline expired, at 16:50 on 12 July, he was shot in the back of the head. Shortly thereafter, he was found on the outskirts of San Sebastián, with his hands tied, dying. He died in the hospital at 4:30 a.m. on 13 July. He is interred in Faramontaos, A Merca, with his parents..(b. 1968)
1998 - José María Requena, writer (b. 1925)
2001 - Miguel Gila Cuesta, comic (b. 1919)
2010 - José Luis Cagigas, businessman and football manager (b. 1928)
2011 - Santiago Chamorro, economist and diplomat (b. 1949)
2001 - Miguel Gila Cuesta, comic (b. 1919)
2010 - José Luis Cagigas, businessman and football manager (b. 1928)
2011 - Santiago Chamorro, economist and diplomat (b. 1949)
