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The General Motors car factory in the US city of Flint ended the sit-down strike with workers' victory

87
years ago

11 February 1937,

The General Motors car factory in the American city of Flint ended the sit-down strike with the victory of the workers. During the 43 days of the occupation of the plant they developed a system of organization of life within the factory. The automotive workers union was strengthened from the strike.

On this day
1954In the Canary Islands, a concentration camp for the LGBTI group was opened.
1990Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison in South Africa

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1937-01-01
The first newspaper in Basque history began to be published: Date
1937-01-02
Request for censorship of civil correspondence in the Salazar valley
1937-01-04
Bilbao was bombed by German aircraft and five people died
1937-01-05
Five women from the Jostunen union were killed by falangists in Mallorca
1937-01-06
Abraham Lincoln U.S. Internationalist Battalion to Fight Fascism in the Spanish State
1937-01-08
U.S. Congress banned the sale of war material in Spain
1937-02-07
Second day of the massacre on the road Malaga-Almeria, also known as 'Desbandá'
1937-02-11
The General Motors car factory in the US city of Flint ended the sit-down strike with workers' victory
1937-02-17
A missile carried as a war trophy erupted at the seat of the Union of Communist and Socialist Youth of Bilbao
1937-02-19
Two young Eritreans attempted to assassinate regent Rodolfo Graziani, imposed by Italy in Ethiopia
1937-02-23
Hondarribia Candido Saseta Etxeberria was killed by Francoists in Asturias
1937-03-05
Cape Matxitxako Sea War between the Francoist Army and Warriors
1937-03-21
U.S. police rebelled against independentists in Puerto Rico and killed 19 people
1937-03-31
The Francoists provoked the massacre of Azaceta, the largest of Álava
1937-03-31
Elorrio and Durango were bombed by Francoist order
1937-04-04
It fell into the hands of Francoist troops Otxandio
1937-04-06
On Mount Saibigain in Abadiño, hard fighting began between the Basque Army and the Francoist army
1937-04-06
Franco government announced the maritime blockade of Bilbao
1937-04-07
The Unit of Phalanx reported that in Donostia there was a lot of Basque and Catalan
1937-04-09
Bilbao was bombed by Francoist troops
1937-04-23
Francoist aircraft bombed Eibar
1937-04-26
Fascist planes bombed Gernika
1937-05-04
Imposition of spelling rules against the Basque Country in Hego Euskal Herria
1937-05-04
The Turkish army kicked off the Dersim massacre against the Kurds
1937-05-21
'Havana' left Santurtzi with 3,840 Basque children fleeing war to the United Kingdom
1937-05-29
The Franco authorities of San Sebastian reported by circulating the ban on speaking in Basque and the filing of complaints
1937-05-31
The Ertzaintza and the Basque Army seized two Spanish vessels
1937-06-13
Basque authorities are preparing to evacuate Bilbao
1937-06-14
Francoist troops took Mungia after a month and a half of attack
1937-06-19
Bilbao fell into the hands of the franchises and started harsh repression
1937-06-25
‘Lauaxeta’ shooting by Francoists
1937-07-08
The United Kingdom introduced the war law and sent 13,000 soldiers to Palestine.
1937-07-10
The first exiled Basque children came to Wales
1937-07-12
Public exhibition of the 'Guernica' painting in Paris
1937-07-30
San Sebastian Civil Government fined businessman Joaquim Rivera for speaking “Catalan dialect”
1937-08-05
The Pamplona journalist Juana Mir was shot by Francoists, one of the few women who wrote in the press.
1937-08-13
Three Republican planes bombed Tudela
1937-10-15
Fourteen Basque prisoners were shot by Franco in El Dueso prison in Santoña
1937-10-28
42 Basque warriors shot by Francoist troops in Santoña
1937-11-19
57 Basque Republican prisoners for enslavement in Seville died in train accident
1937-12-13
Japanese army kicked off the Nanking City massacre in China
1937-12-13
Pedro Garmendia was executed by Francoists by garrote
1937-12-15
Battle of Teruel begins, one of the largest in the War of 36

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1984-02-16
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1984-02-08
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45
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1979-02-12
The World Climate Conference met for the first time in Geneva
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1979-02-03
Ecologists managed to stop a convoy from Lemoniz to the Ascó II nuclear power station in Tarragona.
45
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1979-02-03
100,000 women took to the streets against restricting their rights in Tehran
55
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1969-02-04
The choirs of Santa Águeda boycotted the song
55
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1969-02-04
Jasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestine Liberation Organization
70
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1954-02-19
Socrates, footballer, doctor and activist is born against the Brazilian dictatorship
70
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1954-02-11
In the Canary Islands, a concentration camp for the LGBTI group was opened.
75
years ago
1949-02-18
From Vienna to Euskal Herria the first train filled with Austrian and German children
80
years ago
1944-02-09
Gypsy boxer Rukeli was killed by the Nazis in Neuengamm concentration camp
85
years ago
1939-02-24
Supreme Court banned “fallen arms strikes”
85
years ago
1939-02-22
Antonio Machado died in exile in Northern Catalonia
90
years ago
1934-02-12
Struggles between Socialists and Fascists begin, also known as the Civil War of Austria
100
years ago
1924-02-19
Amale Arcelus is born in Donostia, the first woman in Basque on the radio
105
years ago
1919-02-05
The Canadenca de Barcelona starts a strike for eight hours
110
years ago
1914-02-20
Born the writer Julia de Burgos
115
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1909-02-17
At 80, the head of the apaches named Gerónimo died.
150
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1874-02-21
Bilbao's siege begins in the civil war known as the Second Carlist War
210
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1814-02-26
The City Hall banned the organization of dances, tamboriles and more on carnivals
230
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1794-02-19
47 young people from Itsasu deserted from the French army fleeing the Baztan
245
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1779-02-14
Hawaiians killed colonizer James Cook
375
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1649-02-07
They decided to abolish the monarchy in England and cut King Charles I's head, accusing him of violating citizens' rights and freedoms.
415
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1609-02-13
The Inquisition questioned six citizens of Zugarramurdi in Logroño
500
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1524-02-27
In Hondarribia there were only fighters for Navarre, with the city besieged by the Spaniards.