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On 29 November 2011, the Expert Commission for the Future of the Valley of the Fallen, formed by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero under the Historical Memory Law and in charge of giving advice for converting the Valley to a "memory centre that dignifies and rehabilitates the victims of the Civil War and the subsequent Franco regime", [1 ...
Franco was the second person interred in the Santa Cruz basilica. Franco had earlier interred José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange movement, who was executed by the Republican government in 1936 and was buried by the Francoist government under a modest gravestone on the nave side of the altar. Primo de Rivera died on 20 ...
Fort Saint-Louis, Texas, was founded in 1685 by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle and members of his expedition, including Jesuit missionary Zenobius Membre, on the banks of Garcitas Creek, a few kilometers inland from the mouth of the Lavaca River.
Initial forensic work was to begin Monday to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in ...
The monument of the fallen men of the Dawson Massacre and the ill-fated Mier Expedition.. On September 18, 1848, the remains of Texans killed in the Dawson Massacre and the Black Bean Episode, which had been retrieved from their original burial sites, were reinterred in a common tomb with a sandstone vault at the location now known as Monument Hill.
Beaches turned white as a rare winter storm with heavy snow and ice buried areas from San Antonio and Houston, Texas, along the Gulf coast through the Texas Panhandle. While it has happened before ...
Meyer died on April 15, 1975, and is buried in El Paso’s B’nai Zion Cemetery. Adal Nasr Allah was 17 when she boarded the Titanic in 1912 as a second class passenger. She boarded a lifeboat ...
Corpus Christi, Texas at least 70,000: Funeral of Sibel Yalçın June 16, 1995 Turkey: Istanbul: at least 10,000: Funeral of Yahya Ayyash: January 6, 1996 Palestine: Gaza: at least 100,000 [91] Funeral of Alparslan Türkeş: April 8, 1997 Turkey: Ankara: at least 100,000 [92] Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: September 6, 1997 United Kingdom