1513 – From the height of a mountain in the Urrucallala chain, in present-day Panama, the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered what he called the “South Sea,” which seven years later the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan renamed the Pacific Ocean.
1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in the film industry and the one who has gained the greatest popularity outside Spain in recent decades, is born in the Spanish municipality of Calzada de Calatrava.
1968 – American actor, rapper and producer Will Smith (Willard Carroll Smith Jr.) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He has won four Grammy Awards and was nominated twice for an Oscar. He has made more than 35 films.
1969 – British actress and singer Catherine Z. Jones, winner of an Oscar for her performance in the musical film The Man Who Stole Christmas, is born in the Welsh town of Swansea. Chicago (2002) and a BAFTA. He has made more than 30 films.
1972 – Poet and translator Alejandra Pizarnik, one of the most important voices of Argentine literature in the second half of the 20th century, dies in Buenos Aires at the age of 36.
1973 – While leaving a house in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores, the general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), José Ignacio Rucci, is shot dead, an attack attributed to Montoneros that some former members of the Peronist guerrilla group deny.
