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May 2

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on May 2 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

1 event 1 century 1 country
1970

Fuenlabrada was a small village of less than 5,000 people until the 1960s

Fuenlabrada Spain

when Spanish industrialization and rural-to-urban migration drove massive growth across the southern Madrid suburbs; Fuenlabrada's population grew from about 7,000 in 1970 to over 144,000 by 1990, one of the most dramatic urban-growth examples in modern Spain. The Sur Madrileño…

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