When Ines Antonia Gil Quintana was born on 6 October 1939, in Quiriquire, Punceres, Monagas, Venezuela, her father, Santo Gil Rivero, was 25 and her mother, Gertrudis Quintana, was 27. She died on 11 September 2007, in Maturín, Monagas, Venezuela, at the age of 67.
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President Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela's first democratically elected leader, is overthrown within eight months of his election in a military coup led by Marcos Perez Jimenez, who forms a government with backing from the armed forces and the U.S.
The Caracas Convention established ground rules for political sanctuary in Latin America.
A student strike began at the Central Univ. of Venezuela (UCV) against the electoral fraud of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. This soon led his downfall.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Luis, Manuel, Carlos, Juan, Francisco, Jesus, Jorge, Pedro, Mario, Miguel, Ana. Portuguese Joao, Ligia.
Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese: from the personal name Gil, from French Gille(s), from Latin Aegidius (see Giles 1).
German: from a vernacular short form of the medieval personal name Aegilius, a later form of Latin Aegidius (see Giles 1). Compare Gill 11.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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