Weatherday: ¡Una, Grande y Libre!
Sunny spells through the afternoon and a local temperature high of 17deg. Gentle northwesterly breezes.
On this day in 1936, General Francisco Franco took part in a coup with Spanish Legion soldiers stationed in Morocco, beginning the Spanish Civil War from which he would emerge to rule Spain for almost 40 years.
(Headline is the most common Francoist slogan from the Civil War period.)
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