* 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist ( d. 1918 )

Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

However, the title of discoverer of Chile is usually assigned to Diego de Almagro.

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.

The friar Diego de Landa reported about Yucatán instances, and there have been similar reports by Purchas from Popayán, Colombia, and from the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, where human flesh was called long pig.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

Its highest mountain is Diego de Ocampo, close to Santiago, with 1, 249 m. There are several small plains between this range and the Atlantic Ocean.

Diego de Almagro, ( c. 1475 – July 8, 1538 ), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo ( The Elder ), was a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro.

Diego de Almagro was born in the Spanish city signified by his last name, being the illegitimate son of Juan de Montenegro and Elvira Gutiérrez.

To save Elvira's honor, her family kept her infant and took him to the near village of Bolaños de Calatrava, and Diego was later transferred to Aldea del Rey under the tutelage of Sancha López del Peral.

Although by this time Diego de Almagro had already acquired sufficient wealth in the conquest of Peru and was living a luxurious life in Cuzco, the prospect of conquering the lands further south was very attractive to him.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

Capture and execution of Diego de Almagro ( Engraving, circa 1600 ).

Tradition suggests that the island took its name from the Spanish navigator Diego García de Moguer, who discovered the island in the 1500s.

In 1778 the French Governor of Mauritius granted Monsieur Dupuit de la Faye the island of Diego Garcia, and there is evidence of temporary French visits to collect coconuts and fish.

In 1882 the French-financed, Mauritian-based Societe Huilere de Diego et Peros ( the " Oil Can Company of Diego and Peros "), consolidated all the plantations in the Chagos under its control.

In 1962 the Chagos Agalega Company of the British colony of Seychelles purchased the Societe Huiliere de Diego et Peros and moved company headquarters to Seychelles.

Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.

He had accompanied as canon Diego de Acebo, Bishop of Osma on a diplomatic mission to Denmark, to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark.

In 1534 Sebastián de Belalcázar along with Diego de Almagro established the city of San Francisco de Quito on top of the ruins of the secondary Inca capital naming it in honor of Pizzaro.

The Books of Chilam Balam contain mythological passages of great antiquity, and mythological fragments are found scattered among the early-colonial Spanish chronicles and reports, chief among them Diego de Landa's Relación, and in the dictionaries compiled by the early missionaries.

Confirming Landa's description of the book ritual above, ( Hun -) Itzamna is stated by Diego López de Cogolludo to have invented the priestly art of writing.

The ethnohistorical sources-such as Diego de Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, compiled from native sources in the 16th century-tell us the site was founded by Kukulcan ( the Maya name of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec king, culture hero, and demigod ) after the fall of Chichen Itza.

Page from Brasseur de Bourbourg's edition of Diego de Landa | de Landa's Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán, with the famous de Landa alphabet.

* 1864-Relation des choses du Yucatán de Diego de Landa ( Paris ), reproduction and translation of de Landa's work ;

But in 1864 Brasseur published his French translation of Diego de Landa's recently recovered 1556 ethnographic manuscript, which decisively rejected the notion of Mayan circumcision, and in a footnote he acknowledged there had probably been a " mistake ", an admission that never found its way into the English-language literature although modern ethnography has long since understood the nature of these rituals.

" An Interpretation of Bishop Diego De Landa's Maya Alphabet.

José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera the famous Mexican artists renewed the art of fresco painting in the 20th century.

Diego Rivera, José Orozco and David Siqueiros were the most famous artists of the movement.

* During the war between the United States and North Vietnam, Vice President Spiro Agnew accused newspapers of anti-American bias, and in a famous speech delivered in San Diego in 1970, called anti-war protesters " the nattering nabobs of negativism.

The most famous works are the two portraits of Francis I d ' Este, a sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and a canvas by Diego Velázquez.

" In the audience were other famous mural painters who came to see Chagall's work, including Diego Rivera and José Orozco.

The second source which is more famous than Sánchez ' and goes into more detail about Juan Diego is the Huei tlamahuiçoltica ( which include " Nican Mopohua ") written in Classical Nahuatl by Mexican priest and lawyer Luis Laso de la Vega and published in 1649.

From 1857, Gila Ranch was a stagecoach stop on the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and the later more famous Butterfield Overland Mail route to California located 17 miles from Murderer's Grave Station to the west and 40 miles east of Maricopa Wells Station.

Maricopa Wells was one of the most important relay stations along the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and the later more famous Butterfield Overland Mail Route during the 1800s.

Artistically, Philip became famous for his patronage of his court painter Diego Velázquez.

The painters Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros became world famous for their grand murals, often displaying clear social messages.

As president of the Detroit Arts Commission, he commissioned the famous Diego Rivera Detroit Industry mural contained within the Detroit Institute of Arts ( DIA ).

Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas is the museum's most famous work of art. Represented by almost 50 works, more than one third of his total output, Velázquez is the towering genius of this period in the Prado's collection.

Diego Quispe Tito was a famous artist before the age of Independence.

With him came as an invited passenger by suggestion of the by then 52 years old notorious painter Peter Paul Rubens, in Madrid to Philip IV, the already notorious around 30 years old royal painter Diego Velázquez, who went with him to see famous paintings in Genoa, Milan, Venice and Rome.

He would be painted however after his death, by Diego Velázquez, in 1635, as ordered by Felipe IV, in the famous picture " The Surrender of Breda ", visited by tens of millions of tourists at the Museum of Prado in Madrid for the last two centuries or so.

Over time, it attracted names such as Salvador Novo, Octavio Paz, Mario Moreno and Dolores del Río, exiles such as Leon Trotsky and Romania ’ s King Carl, as well as its two most famous residents, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

One of the most famous people to come from Papantla is artist Teodoro Cano Garcia, who was a disciple of Diego Rivera.

Despite still producing some of the most original works in Spanish of the twentieth century — the existential-surrealist novel El hombre perdido Lost Man ( 1947 ) and his extraordinary neo-baroque autobiography Automoribundia ( Automoribund ) — his life in exile was one of pathetic isolation and increasing poverty, neither of which were helped by the knowledge that he had left behind ( and in 1947 donated to the Spanish State ) the celebrated painting of the Pombo Tertulia by Gutiérrez-Solana ( now given pride of place in Madrid ’ s Reina Sofia Museum ) and the equally famous cubist portrait of him painted in 1915 by Diego Rivera ( which was lost without trace during the civil war but has apparently resurfaced to become the ‘ property ’ of a Mexican millionaire ).

The Del Mar Fair is home to one of the most famous racetracks in the world and is the site of the annual San Diego County Fair.

While dangerous high-speed chases along the San Diego Freeway are not uncommon, perhaps the most famous chase in its history was also one of the slowest.

Some of the most famous Spanish explorers were Diego de Ordaz ( discover of the Indian town of Uyapari ), Diego de Lepe, Juan Bono de Quejo and Antonio Berrio.

In the famous tenth inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, after Wally Backman and Keith Hernandez had been retired for the first two outs, Mitchell went to the clubhouse to make plane reservations for home in San Diego.