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Algerian War of Independence

70

years ago

01 November 1954,

The Algerian War of Independence breaks out. The National Liberation Front and other independence groups fought against the French army and far-right armed groups in favour of the French union.

Eight years later, it ended in 1962, when Algeria managed to liberate itself from France. The Algerian struggle then inspired revolutionaries around the world.

1538The Spanish inquisitor came to Bizkaia to deepen the witch hunt

1972They start publishing Wimmen's Comix, the first feminist comic book magazine.

1986Ecological disaster in Switzerland with 30 tonnes of pesticides, pesticides, dyes and mercury discharged into the river Rhine

2019Durango welcomed over 3,000 women* in the V Basque Country. Feminist Conferences

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1954-02-11

In the Canary Islands, a concentration camp for the LGBTI group was opened.

1954-02-19

Socrates, footballer, doctor and activist is born against the Brazilian dictatorship

1954-03-01

U.S. nuclear test caught 23 Japanese sailors on Bikini Atoll

1954-03-09

Bobby Sands is born in a Catholic family in Belfast

1954-06-26

The world's first nuclear power plant begins in the Russian city of Obninsk

1954-07-13

Frida Kahlo dies in Mexico City

1954-11-01

Algerian War of Independence

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

5

years ago

2019-11-21

Getaria’s former fishing boat ‘Aita Mari’ made the first rescue in the Mediterranean Sea

5

years ago

2019-11-10

Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Aymara president, stopped in office by denouncing the coup d’état against him

5

years ago

2019-11-01

Durango welcomed over 3,000 women* in the V Basque Country. Feminist Conferences

10

years ago

2014-11-09

In the popular consultation on independence, 2.3 million Catalans voted

15

years ago

2009-11-24

Spanish police arrested 34 Basque youth in the largest raid against Segi

20

years ago

2004-11-28

The Chilean Government published a report on torture during the dictatorship.

20

years ago

2004-11-11

Jasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian National Authority, dies in Paris from unknown causes

25

years ago

1999-11-30

Battle of Seattle begins

25

years ago

1999-11-25

Solidarity with Itoiz occupied the International Court of Justice in The Hague

25

years ago

1999-11-18

Bilbaíno Iñigo Egiluz and Colombian Jorge Luis Mazo were killed by Colombian paramilitaries

25

years ago

1999-11-16

Aratz Gallastegi refused to play with the Spanish rugby team

30

years ago

1994-11-02

Fine Arts students tried to occupy the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao at the request of Basque professors

35

years ago

1989-11-20

HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress

35

years ago

1989-11-02

Nun Dianna Ortiz, who worked with indigenous people, was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan military

40

years ago

1984-11-23

The Spanish Police entered the Euskalduna shipyard in Bilbao and caused the death of the worker Pablo González.

40

years ago

1984-11-22

Start a two-day general strike in Hego Euskal Herria to report the murder of Santi Brouard

40

years ago

1984-11-20

Santi Brouard was killed by GAL in Bilbao

40

years ago

1984-11-19

There was one of the worst industrial disaster in the world, with explosions in the oil deposits PEMEX of San Juanico, Mexico

40

years ago

1984-11-16

Police arrested 2,000 rented tenants in South African city of Johannesburg

40

years ago

1984-11-12

Four pacifists destroyed a nuclear missile hole in Missouri, USA

40

years ago

1984-11-04

The first free elections in the history of Nicaragua, after the victory of the Sandinista Revolution

45

years ago

1979-11-11

Mikel Arrangi Marin was killed by the Civil Guard in Etxarri Aranaz

45

years ago

1979-11-04

The Basque movement is born in the Basque Country

45

years ago

1979-11-02

Assata Shakurre, a member of the Black Panthers, fled jail in the US

50

years ago

1974-11-24

In Ethiopia, the Lucy skeleton, a fingerprint of human ancestors over 3 million years old, was discovered.

50

years ago

1974-11-13

Karen Silkwood, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union trade unionist, dies in a suspicious accident

55

years ago

1969-11-19

General strike for the right to housing in Italy

55

years ago

1969-11-12

Journalist Seymour Hersh during the Vietnam War reported the massacre of 100 unarmed civilians

65

years ago

1959-11-10

They closed the clandestine ikastola of Iralabarri (Bilbao)

70

years ago

1954-11-01

Algerian War of Independence

75

years ago

1949-11-18

In Nigeria, 21 Grebalaris miners and the people around fired at the Enagu coal mine owned by the British government.

75

years ago

1949-11-02

The Francoist mayor of Gernika ordered the abolition and placement of the inscriptions in Basque from the cemetery

85

years ago

1939-11-17

Eight students and one teacher were killed by the Nazis in Prague, Czechoslovakia

85

years ago

1939-11-08

With a bomb they tried to kill Hitler in Munich

100

years ago

1924-11-07

A group of anarchists broke into Bera early in the morning with the aim of turning Spain

160

years ago

1864-11-29

U.S. Army Killed The People of Cheiene and Arapaho in Sand Creek

180

years ago

1844-11-14

Feminist and socialist thinker Flora Tristan dies in Bordeaux

240

years ago

1784-11-27

It was forbidden to speak in Basque at the school of Aia and recommended the sanction of the ring

415

years ago

1609-11-30

Galileo Galilei first watched the moon with a telescope

485

years ago

1539-11-30

Mexican Basque Inquisitor Juan Zumarraga ordered a Aztec citizen to burn alive