June 22

June 22, 2024 - Reading time: 7 minutes

Saints Days: Paulino de Nola, Clemente, Tomás and Inocencio V

1484 - The Christian army started a new attack on the Granada plain winning new areas of land in Gójar, Dílar, La Zubia and Armilla.

Juan Luis Galiardo - Photo www.rtve.es

1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

1898 - Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S.Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquiri, Cuba, about 26km east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt Gen Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings

1925 - Spain and France fight Morocco

1981 - is published the first great success of the Spanish band Mecano, Hoy no me puedo levantar.

1986 - Felipe González wins general election
2007 - End of successful long running radio programme ‘No Somos Nadie’ on M80 Radio.

2021 - Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pardons nine Catalan politicians and activists for the 2017 - illegal secession referendum

2018 - ‘The Navarra Court has granted the ‘wolf-gang’ provisional release’ – despite thousands of people demonstrated across Spain against the levity of the sentence over the alleged rape during Sanfermines
More demonstrations are called for today

Births

1611 - Pablo Bruna, blind composer, born in Daroca (d. 1679)
1805 - Juan Arolas, writer (d. 1849).

1909 - Infanta Beatriz of Spain, aristocratic (d. 2002)
1926 - Marta Mata, politician (d. 2006).
1930 - Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, politician (d. 1992).
1936 - Gemma Cuervo, actress.
1936 - Juan Jose Alonso Millán, dramatist.
1936 - Ferran Olivella, footballer. (d. 2023)
1945 - Pere Gimferrer, writer and academic.

1954 - Amparo Muñoz Spanish Miss Universe (1974) born in Malgra
1979 - Leire Martínez, singer-songwriter (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1982 - Andoni Iraola, footballer for Athletic Club.
1984 - Rubén Iván Martínez, footballer
1991 - Hugo Mallo, footballer

1996 - Mikel Merino, footballer

Deaths
1453 - Álvaro de Luna, politician.
1580 - Hernando de Acuña, military and poet.
1839 - Domingo Cullen, canary politician, governor in Argentina (b. 1791).
1865 - Duke of Ribas, writer and painter (b. 1791)
1872 - Juana de Vega, writer.
1910 - Ricardo de la Vega, dramatist (b. 1839).
1976 - Alfonso Aragón (Fofó), clown.
1987 - Julio Salvador y Díaz-Benjumea, soldier and politician (b. 1910).
2006 - Asun Balzola, writer (b. 1942).
2012 - Juan Luis Galiardo, actor and producer (b. 1922)
2013 - Javier Tomeo, writer (b. 1932).