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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was born on 4 December 1892 in the Calle Frutos Saavedra in Ferrol, Galicia, [20] into a seafaring family. [21] He was baptised thirteen days later at the military church of San Francisco, with the baptismal name Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo. [20]
In areas of Spain where Basque is spoken, "Patxi" is the most common nickname; in the Catalan areas, "Cesc" (short for Francesc) is often used. In Spanish Latin America and in the Philippines, people with the name Francisco are frequently called "Pancho". "Kiko"and "Cisco" is also used as a nickname, and "Chicho" is another possibility.
"Rainbow Maniac" – Jairo Francisco Franco "Raincoat Killer" – Yoo Young-chul "Rainy Night Butcher" – Lam Kor-wan "Rambo Bentong" – Rabidin Satir "Ratcliff Highway Demon" – John Williams "Reading Baby Farmer" – Amelia Dyer "Red Phantom" – Alternate nickname of the Zodiac Killer. Unsolved "Red Ripper" – Andrei Chikatilo
Name (Birth–Death) Term of office Party Government Composition Election Head of State (Tenure) Ref. Took office Left office Duration; Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1892–1975) 30 January 1938 [l] 9 August 1939 35 years and 129 days National Movement : Franco I National Movement: N/A: Caudillo Francisco Franco (1936–1975) [292] [293] [294 ...
The first Francoism (1939–1959) was the first stage in the history of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, between the end of the Spanish Civil War and the abandonment of the autarkic economic policy with the application of the Stabilization Plan of 1959, which gave way to the developmentalist Francoism or second Francoism, which lasted until the death of the Generalissimo.
Franco is a common surname in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sephardic Jewish communities deriving from the word "Frank", in reference to the Germanic tribe of the Franks, who invaded Gaul during the Migration Period. [1]
"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night (now called Saturday Night Live, or SNL) and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the impending death of Francisco Franco. It was one of the first catchphrases from the series to enter the general lexicon.
Convento de San Rafael in Belchite, destroyed in the Civil War, now a monument Francisco Franco and Dwight D. Eisenhower in Madrid in 1959. The Second Spanish Republic was established in April 1931 after King Alfonso XIII had forced the dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera to resign, followed by nationwide municipal elections.