Manuel Pardiñas Serrano (1880 or 1887 – 12 November 1912) was a Spanish

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who assassinated José Canalejas, the

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. Pardiñas shot Canalejas in front of the San Martín Library in

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on 12 November 1912. Pardiñas then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. He was reportedly from the town of

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in the

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