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1922Aug, 4

Luis Aponte Martínez

Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (d. 2012)
Luis Aponte Martínez (August 4, 1922 – April 10, 2012) was Archbishop of San Juan in Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1999. To date he is the only Puerto Rican to have been elevated to a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He participated as an elector in the two conclaves of 1978 that elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II.

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    James Joyce

    Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
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    Great Fire of Smyrna

    The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
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  • 24Nov

    Executions during the Irish Civil War

    Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.