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President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.

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Lluís Companys

Catalan lawyer and politician (1882–1940)

Lluís Companys i Jover was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War.
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Francoist Spain

Period of Spanish history (1936–1975)

Francoist Spain, also known as the Francoist dictatorship, or Nationalist Spain was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a…
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