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June 29

Saints Days: Pedro, Pablo, Marcelo, Siro y Casio

San Pedro y San Pablo – Fiestas in Burgos, Zamora, Castellón and Segovia.
Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)

Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja) - Photo wikipedia

1236 - Fernando III of Castilla captures Córdoba from the Muslims
1707 - The Nueva Planta decrees are published in which Felipe V orders that Aragón and Valencia no longer exist as independent kingdoms in Castilla
1755 - Santander receives the title of city
2005 - Gran Canaria declared by UNESCO as a Biosphere reserve
2008 - the national football team won its second European Championship.
2022 - The 2022 Madrid summit was a meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the thirty members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), their partner countries, and the European Union, held in Madrid, on 29–30 June 2022 Spain previously hosted a NATO Summit in 1997.


Births
1136 - Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
1397 - John II King of Aragon and Navarra, born in Medina del Campo (d. 1479)
1488 - Pedro Pacheco de Villena, also known as Pedro Pacheco Ladrón de Guevara, was a Spanish cardinal and viceroy of Naples  (d. 1560)
1620 - Masaniello (Tommaso Aniello) Italian fisherman and leader of the 1647 Naples revolt against the rule of Habsburg Spain, born in Naples, Spanish Empire (d. 1647)
1715 - Pedro de Cevallos, soldier.
1752 - Pablo Pedro Astarloa, Basque philologist (d. 1806).
1784 - Alejandro Aguado, banker and aristocrat (d.1842 ).
1878 - Pedro Sangro y Ros de Olano, politician and economist (d. 1959).
1901 - José del Castillo Sáenz de Tejada, soldier (d. 1936).
1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre, poet and publisher (La Lenta libertad) born in Málaga (d. 1959)
1920 - César Rodríguez Álvarez, footballer and manager (d. 1995)
1923 - Pablo García Baena, poet.
1931 - Pedro Miguel Barreda Marcos, writer and historian.
1935 - José María Cuevas, businessman (d. 2008).
1944 - Andreu Mas-Colell, economist, academic, and politician
1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona & Minister of Industry) born in Parets del Vallès, Cataluña
1951 - Jaume Rovira Freixa, cartoonist and illustrator.
1957 - Ouka Leele photographer.
1962 - Joan Laporta, lawyer and politician President of Barcelona
1965 - Silvina Berenguer, painter.
1975 - Mónica Estarreado, actress.
1979 - Abraham Paz, footballer.
1979 - Alejo Sauras, actor.
1986 - José Manuel Jurado, footballer

Deaths
1315 - Ramon Llull, philosopher.
1576 - Pedro Juan de Lastanosa, mathematician, cartographer and engineer.
1666 - Mateo Cerezo, painter (b. 1637).
1725 - Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, aristócrat, founder of the RAE.
1972 - Rafael García Valiño, solider (b. 1898).
1979 - Blas de Otero, poet.
1979 - Justo Pérez de Urbel, cleric and historian (b. 1895).
1991 - Ángel González Álvarez, philosopher (b. 1916).
2005 - Rafael Morales, painter (b. 1919).