September 11, 1998
1st Century BC
Birth of the Virgin Mary as celebrated by the Roman Catholic
Church.
Ago, in 1546
Discovery of rich deposits of silver in present-day Zacatecas.
Cap. Juan de Tolosa founds the town Real de Zacatecas after discovering rich mineral deposits in the area.
1556: Francisco de Bustamante anti-Guadalupan sermon, calling the devotion "new" and idolatric.
1565: The first permanent settlement in what is now the U.S., St Augustine, Florida, is established by Pedro Menendez.
1722: Scholar Francisco Antonio Lorenzana y Buitron is born in Toledo, Spain. Founded Casa de Cuna in Mexico, and was Inquisitor General and Counselor of the State in New Spain. Wrote "Historia de Nueva Espana," etc.
1768: Josefa Ortiz (Giron) de Dominguez, heroine of Independence, is born in Valladolid, present-day Morelia, Michoacan.
1771: Mission San Gabriel Archangel is founded in Alta California.
1816: Poet and fable writer Ignacio Fernandez de Cordova dies. Wrote `Fabulas,' [b. 1777 in Valladolid, Mich]
1824: Composer Jaime Nuno Roca is born in San Juan de las Abadesas, Cataluna, Spain. Wrote the music of the National Anthem. [d. July 18, 1908]
1847: Battle of Molino del Rey against the US invasion. Gen. Lucas Balderas dies in battle.
1862: Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza, hero of the French intervention War, dies of typhoid fever in Puebla only 4 months after winning the May 5th battle.
1863: Musician Gustavo E. Campa is born in Mexico City. [d. Oct 29, 1934]
1869: Jose Maria Pino Suarez, hero of the Revolution and Vicepresident of Mexico, is born in Tenosique, Tabasco.
Musician Jeronimo Baqueiro Foster is born in Hopelchen, Campeche.
1914: Zapata issues, from his Cuernavaca headquarters, a decree to execute Article 8 of the Ayala Plan, which provided for the appropriation of the goods of the persons who opposed, directly or indirectly, the Ayala revolution.
1943: `Teatro Metropolitan' opens in Mexico City with the premier of the movie "Los Miserables de Victor Hugo" (directed by F. Rivero).
The BBC of London announces the official capitulation of Italy to the Allies during WWII. Marshall Badoglio, president of the govmt, had fled the night before.
1958: Teachers manifestation, along with railroad workers, is broken by the army.
1964: Uruguay breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba in compliance with a recent OAS directive. This leaves Mexico as the only Latin American nation maintaining relations with the Castro government.
1965: Police and students clash briefly at the Univ. of Mexico.
1974: Sen. Ruben Figueroa, apparently kidnapped last May by left-wing guerrillas, is released during an alleged shootout between his captors and army troops in the mountains of Guerrero State.
1983: Oscar Torres Pancardo, secretary general of the union of oil workers, dies in a car accident, which his family believed to be premeditated.
1986: Mexico's underground economy accounted for between a quarter and one-third of the nation's $120 billion overall economy, it is reported.
1988: Writer Arnold R. Rojas dies. A former vaquero, chronicled the life and lore of these cowboys in regional classics such as `California Vaquero,' and `Last of the Vaqueros,' etc.
1990: International Day of Literacy.
1993: The Senate approves changes to article 82 of the Constitution to allow children of foreign-born Mexicans to become President.
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