* criticism of the Franco Regime in Spain, calling the regime " devilish murderers " ( Swedish: " Satans mördare ") after its execution of ETA and FRAP nationalists in September 1975 ;

In 1939, with Germany ’ s invasion of France looming, Miró relocated to Varengeville in Normandy, and on May 20 of the following year, as Germans invaded Paris, he narrowly fled to Spain ( now controlled by Francisco Franco ) for the duration of the Vichy Regime ’ s rule.

After General Charles de Gaulle argued about US-leadership within the NATO Alliance and following the unconditional support entrusted by the US Governments to dubious right-wing military regimes in the name of Communist Containment policy-such as the Spanish Franco and Portuguese Salazar's dictatorships or the Greek Regime of the Colonels, in the wake of the Vietnam War protests, democratic left-wing public opinion in the USA and in Europe raised the controversial question of the MAPs being used as instruments of some form of covert ultra-conservative political US imperialism.

It was characterized by freedom of expression, transgression of the taboos imposed by the Franco Regime, use of recreational drugs, the " coming out " of the Madrilenian cheli and the " pasota " dialect and a new spirit of freedom on the streets.

They failed to see, says Messori, that there were many other members of Opus Dei who were against the Franco Regime, like Rafael Calvo Serrer and Antonio Fontan.

Once the Spanish Civil War broke out, Alfonso made it clear he favoured the military uprising against the Popular Front government, but General Francisco Franco in September 1936 declared that the Nationalists would never accept Alfonso as King ( the supporters of the rival Carlist pretender made up an important part of the Franco Army ).

The Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) was exceptional because both sides of the war received support from intervening great powers: Germany, Italy, and Portugal supported opposition leader Francisco Franco, while France and Russia supported the government ( see proxy war ).

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

On 17 July 1936, General Francisco Franco led the colonial army from Morocco to attack the mainland, while another force from the north under General Sanjurjo moved south from Navarre.

During his period as Chancellor, he made Carl Schmitt his regular intellectual companion ( also a 1933 NSDAP late joiner, Francisco Franco apologist, and hyperactive anti-Jewish Nazi intellectual until falling out of Nazi grace in 1936 ).

General Francisco Franco used the city as one of his staging grounds for his rebellion in 1936, and a statue of him-the last statue of Franco in Spain-is still prominently featured.

In 1936, General Francisco Franco ordered Spanish Nationalists to use the weapon against Soviet T-26 tanks supporting the Spanish Republicans in a failed assault on the Nationalist stronghold of Seseña, near Toledo, south of Madrid.

The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet.

A violent civil war broke out in Spain in 1936 when General Francisco Franco rebelled against the Second Spanish Republic.

* Spanish Civil War ( 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939 ) – Germany and Italy back anti-communist Falange forces of Francisco Franco.

In 1936, Franco Alfano composed his opera, Cyrano de Bergerac, to a libretto based on the play.

In 1936 dictator Franco bombed the city until his rebel army occupied the city on 15 January 1939, starting with the dictatorship of Franco since the dictator died on 1975.

In España, aparta de mí este cáliz ( Spain, Take This Chalice from Me ), Vallejo takes the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ) as a living representation of a struggle between good and evil forces, where he advocates for the triumph of mankind symbolised in the salvation of the Second Spanish Republic ( 1931 – 39 ) that was being attacked by fascist allied forces led by General Franco.

On the morning of 11 July 1936, Major Hugh Pollard, and Cecil Bebb left Croydon Airport for the Canary Islands in a de Havilland Dragon Rapide aircraft, where they picked up General Francisco Franco, taking him to Spanish Morocco and thereby helping to trigger the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

* Ciano's diplomatic papers: being a record of nearly 200 conversations held during the years 1936 – 42 with Hitler, Mussolini, Franco ; together with important memoranda, letters, telegrams etc.

One of the bloodiest regime change in Europe was due to the coup d ' état of Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain in 1936, itself a reaction to the abolition of the kingdom and the establishment of a republican regime in 1931.

On 12 October 1936 the celebration of Columbus Day had brought together a politically diverse crowd at the University of Salamanca, including Enrique Pla y Deniel, the Archbishop of Salamanca, and Carmen Polo Martínez-Valdés, the wife of Franco, Falangist General José Millán Astray and Unamuno himself.

Rented public houses were relatively common in the Francisco Franco ( 1936 – 75 ) era.

The Spanish Civil War began in 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 with the victory of General Francisco Franco and his coalition of allied organizations commonly referred to as the Nationalists.

* 1958 – Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player

* 1978 – James Franco, American actor

* 1924 – Franco Mannino, Italian composer, playwright, and novelist ( d. 2005 )

* 1989 – Franco Di Santo, Argentine footballer

* 12 February 1814 – 12 June 1814 Fulgencio Yegros y Franco de Torres

* 1989 – Franco Vázquez, Argentine footballer

* 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th " Caudillo de España ", or Leader of Spain.

* 1978 – Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist

* 1939 – Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.

* 1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d ' état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.

* 1985 – Dave Franco, American actor

* 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

* 2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.

* 1955 – Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer

* 1960 – Franco Baresi, Italian footballer

* 1930 – Jesús Franco, Spanish director

* 1941 – Franco Bonvicini, Italian comic book artist ( d. 1995 )

* 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.

* John Franco 2001 – 2004

* 1976 – Guillermo Franco, Argentine / Mexican footballer

* 1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor