November 13
Saint’s Day for Leandro and Diego de Alcalá.
0609 - The reign of Sisebuto starts, the Second Council of Seville, presided over by St. Isidore of Seville.
1484 - The Spaniards defeated the Guanches and recover Tenerife.
1922 - The Government dissolves the Military Defense Boards and prohibits associating with the military.
1923 - Start of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.
1484 - The Spaniards defeated the Guanches and recover Tenerife.
1922 - The Government dissolves the Military Defense Boards and prohibits associating with the military.
1923 - Start of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.
1976 - The rock group La Banda Trapera del Río performs its first recital in a tribute to Lina Odena in the Spanish Village; This date has always been considered as that of her foundation.
1992 - in Alcàsser,the events of the brutal Crime of Alcàsser take place: three girls of 14 and 15 years old who were hitchhiking are raped and killed.
2002 - The Prestige oil tanker suffers hull damage off Galicia’s Coast of Death. The ship broke in two on the 19th, shedding an estimated 63,000 tons of fuel. It was the start of Spain’s worst environmental disaster to date and one of the worst to have taken place in the northeast Atlantic.
1992 - in Alcàsser,the events of the brutal Crime of Alcàsser take place: three girls of 14 and 15 years old who were hitchhiking are raped and killed.
2002 - The Prestige oil tanker suffers hull damage off Galicia’s Coast of Death. The ship broke in two on the 19th, shedding an estimated 63,000 tons of fuel. It was the start of Spain’s worst environmental disaster to date and one of the worst to have taken place in the northeast Atlantic.
2017 - ‘The drought and the lack of water threatens 35,800 hectares of cultivations in Alicante province’ – the countryside has lost 40% of its fertility over the last decade despite areas with heavy rains such as Galicia. The farmers alert they need a third of the total supply, and hence the mature fruit is smaller in size.
2023 - Finally, and after an endless wait, early today a group of forty Palestinians with Spanish passports left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing towards Egypt. In this first group there were 22 minors. Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, confirmed, "The latest information we have is that the first Hispano-Palestinians have crossed the Palestine checkpoint and are already at the Egyptian checkpoint to enter the country definitively."
In the coming days, between 140 and 170 people are expected to cross the Rafah border from Gaza into Egypt after the point was opened to foreigners on 1 November. "It will be done in groups of between 30 and 40 people," said Salah Awad El Sousi, a 73-year-old doctor who arrived in Spain in 1969 and works with the Spanish-Palestinian community.
Births
1805 - Luis de Usoz, Hebrew and Spanish scholar (d. 1865)
1819 - Estanislao Figueras, politician.
1832 - Eugenio Montero Ríos, politician.
1844 - Leopoldo Cano y Masas, soldier and dramatist.
1805 - Luis de Usoz, Hebrew and Spanish scholar (d. 1865)
1819 - Estanislao Figueras, politician.
1832 - Eugenio Montero Ríos, politician.
1844 - Leopoldo Cano y Masas, soldier and dramatist.
1875 - Rogelio del Villar, composer, born in León (d. 1937)
1888 - Antonio Aranda Mata, soldier (d. 1979)
1914 - Julio Caro Baroja, anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.
1916 - Jose Ortega Spottorno, auditor and engineer founder and honorary president of El País and creator of Alianza Editorial.
1923 - Pío Cabanillas, lawyer and politician.
1929 - Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba, poet of the Generation 50.
1943 - Paco Melo, footballer.
1944 - José María García, sports journalist.
1952 - Maria Mercè Marçal, poet, professor of Catalan, Catalan writer and translator.
1978 - Jose Muñoz, singer in the rock group Estopa.
Deaths:
0687 - Ervigio, King of the Visigoths in Spain.
1888 - Antonio Aranda Mata, soldier (d. 1979)
1914 - Julio Caro Baroja, anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.
1916 - Jose Ortega Spottorno, auditor and engineer founder and honorary president of El País and creator of Alianza Editorial.
1923 - Pío Cabanillas, lawyer and politician.
1929 - Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba, poet of the Generation 50.
1943 - Paco Melo, footballer.
1944 - José María García, sports journalist.
1952 - Maria Mercè Marçal, poet, professor of Catalan, Catalan writer and translator.
1978 - Jose Muñoz, singer in the rock group Estopa.
Deaths:
0687 - Ervigio, King of the Visigoths in Spain.
Constanza Manuel - https://es.wikipedia.org/
1345 - Constanza Manuel of Villena, was a Castilian noblewoman who by her two marriages was Queen consort of Castile and Infanta of Portugal (b. 1316)
1565 - Pedro de Lagasca, Spanish political and ecclesiastical.
1873 - The realist painter, Eduardo Rosales.
1950 - Juan Monjardín Callejón, footballer (b. 1903)
1992 - Lucrecia Perez, Dominican immigrant in Spain (b. 1959)
1565 - Pedro de Lagasca, Spanish political and ecclesiastical.
1873 - The realist painter, Eduardo Rosales.
1950 - Juan Monjardín Callejón, footballer (b. 1903)
1992 - Lucrecia Perez, Dominican immigrant in Spain (b. 1959)
2010 - Luis García Berlanga, director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2012:- Manuel Peña Escontrela, footballer (b. 1965)
2012:- Manuel Peña Escontrela, footballer (b. 1965)
