1978 Event Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast 1947 Event Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300 1925 Birthday Lola Flores, Cadiz Spain, singer and actress, Kuma Ching, Faraona 1901 Birthday Clark Gable, born in Cadiz, Ohio, actor, 'Gone With the Wind' 1876 Birthday Manuel de Falla, Cadiz Spain, composer, El Amor Brujo 1625 Event Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz 1596 Event English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz 1596 Event English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz 1587 Event Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain and sinks Spanish fleet
