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The Canadenca de Barcelona starts a strike for eight hours

105
years ago

05 February 1919,

The La Canadenca factory in Barcelona began a strike for the eight-hour day. The strike, called by the CNT union, lasted 44 days and in a few days extended to 70% of the Catalan industry. Thanks to this strike, they had to accept the measure in the Spanish state, for the first time in the world.

On this day
1971Suspending the exceptional situation of the Franco regime for Gipuzkoa
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1992Paramilitary band UDA killed five people in Belfast
2008Poor neighborhoods in the Maputo capital of Mozambique rose up against transport prices

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1919-01-01
They published the first issue of Sky Light.
1919-01-05
Spartanchist Uprising inspired by the Russian Revolution begins in Berlin
1919-01-10
German workers' councils and the Spartakist League proclaimed the Soviet Republic of Bremen
1919-01-14
Rosa Luxembourg published her last article on the eve of her murder
1919-01-15
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed Germany's leading political leaders
1919-01-16
They confirmed in the US the so-called dry law: they banned the production, trade and transportation of alcoholic beverages
1919-01-24
In the Irish city of Monaghan, nurses occupied the hospital and declared sovereignty.
1919-01-31
Serious disturbances in Glasgow to 60,000 workers who, when attacked by the police, were meeting in favour of lower days
1919-02-05
The Canadenca de Barcelona starts a strike for eight hours
1919-03-04
Kinmel Park Matxinada begins in the Welsh town of Abergele
1919-04-10
Emiliano Zapata Dies in Mexico
1919-04-10
In Ireland they formed the Limerick Sobieta, printing their own currency and fixing the price of basic necessities.
1919-04-13
British soldiers shot the crowd and killed over 1,000 people in the Indian city of Amritsar

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-02-06
Police killed 15 people on Tarajal beach in Ceuta
25
years ago
1999-02-15
Kurdish Öcalan was arrested by CIA secret services, Mosad and Turkey in Kenya
25
years ago
1999-02-07
The Government of Ukraine again threatened the launching of the third reactor at the Chernobyle nuclear plant
35
years ago
1989-02-14
Iranian imam Khomeini ordered the writer Salman Rushdie to be murdered for his novel 'Satanic verses'
40
years ago
1984-02-25
Death of Eugenio Gutierrez Tigre in Idauze-Mendin GAL
40
years ago
1984-02-16
Spanish police killed Iñaki Ojeda in Barakaldo negotiating her surrender
40
years ago
1984-02-08
Bixente Perurena Peru and Angel Gurmindo Stein were killed by the GAL in Hendaia
45
years ago
1979-02-12
The World Climate Conference met for the first time in Geneva
45
years ago
1979-02-03
Ecologists managed to stop a convoy from Lemoniz to the Ascó II nuclear power station in Tarragona.
45
years ago
1979-02-03
100,000 women took to the streets against restricting their rights in Tehran
55
years ago
1969-02-04
The choirs of Santa Águeda boycotted the song
55
years ago
1969-02-04
Jasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestine Liberation Organization
70
years ago
1954-02-19
Socrates, footballer, doctor and activist is born against the Brazilian dictatorship
70
years ago
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
years ago
1909-02-17
At 80, the head of the apaches named Gerónimo died.
150
years ago
1874-02-21
Bilbao's siege begins in the civil war known as the Second Carlist War
210
years ago
1814-02-26
The City Hall banned the organization of dances, tamboriles and more on carnivals
230
years ago
1794-02-19
47 young people from Itsasu deserted from the French army fleeing the Baztan
245
years ago
1779-02-14
Hawaiians killed colonizer James Cook
375
years ago
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
years ago
1609-02-13
The Inquisition questioned six citizens of Zugarramurdi in Logroño
500
years ago
1524-02-27
In Hondarribia there were only fighters for Navarre, with the city besieged by the Spaniards.