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On both sides of the Berlin Wall's 'Checkpoint Charlie' checkpoint, the Soviet and American tanks stood in front of each other.

63
years ago

27 October 1961,

On both sides of the Checkpoint Charlie checkpoint at the Berlin Wall, the Soviet and American tanks stood in front. The conflict began with the request for documentation to move US officials to the USSR. The next day both sides reached an agreement and removed the tanks. The Cold War was warming.

On this day
1942The 17-year-old anti-fascist student Helmuth Hübener was executed by the Nazis in Berlin
1985Larratxo residents cut traffic and played a football game on the road to ask for sports infrastructure
2005In Paris, incidents in slums begin due to the deaths of two young people fleeing police
2011The president of Navarra, Yolanda Barcina, was hit by the tartada, Mugi against the TAV! members of the movement

This year in history: < >
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1961-01-17
Patrice Lumumba was killed under the coup d'état sponsored by Belgium and the US, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo
1961-01-23
One aircraft accidentally released two nuclear bombs in North Carolina.
1961-03-27
Javier Batarrita Elexpuru is killed by the Spanish Civil Guard in the Bilbao Bolueta
1961-04-12
The Soviet Juri Gagarin came into space, the first man to achieve it.
1961-04-15
U.S. CIA Agency Makes Attempt to Invade Castro on Girón Beach in Cuba
1961-07-18
Venezuelan Maria Mercedes Antxeta was arrested in San Sebastian by Francoists, being tortured by Meliton Manzanas
1961-07-18
ETA tried to do its first major task: to get off the road a train carrying former Francoist soldiers
1961-10-17
French police killed over 200 Algerians in Paris during a peaceful demonstration
1961-10-27
On both sides of the Berlin Wall's 'Checkpoint Charlie' checkpoint, the Soviet and American tanks stood in front of each other.
1961-12-16
First action by the armed organization Umkhonto we Sizwe against Apartheid in South Africa
1961-12-22
Fidel Castro reveals that illiteracy was radicalized

This month's anniversaries:
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5
years ago
2019-10-22
Women of the Spanish football league called indefinite strike
5
years ago
2019-10-14
Barcelona International Airport Block by Tsunami Democràtic
5
years ago
2019-10-07
The Extinction Rebellion movement calls the day of disobedience
10
years ago
2014-10-11
About 100,000 people from all over Ireland joined Dublin against the privatization of water services
10
years ago
2014-10-10
In Deusto they organized the Askegune to denounce the intention to arrest two young strikers
20
years ago
2004-10-01
Torturator Enrique Rodríguez Galindo, five of the 75-year-old prison sentence
25
years ago
1999-10-25
Ten members of Itoiz Solidarios hanged in London's giant noria
30
years ago
1994-10-03
ETB broadcast of the first episode of the 'Goenkale' series
35
years ago
1989-10-19
Fire at the Vandellòs I nuclear power plant in Tarragona
35
years ago
1989-10-18
The Leitzaran Highway Coordinator started an indefinite camp
40
years ago
1984-10-12
Margaret Thatcher was saved from the IRA attack shortly after
50
years ago
1974-10-29
Etarra Iñaki Iparragirre and civil guard Jerónimo Vera died in a shooting in Pasaia
50
years ago
1974-10-09
Oskar Schindler dies in Sweden
55
years ago
1969-10-30
Francoist police shot Josu Murueta to death in protest against pollution in Erandio
55
years ago
1969-10-08
The Tupamanos stole some 40,000 pesos and spread them among the poor in the city in Uruguay
80
years ago
1944-10-07
Hundreds of Auschwitz prisoners rebelled against the Nazis
85
years ago
1939-10-19
Aquiles Cuadra was shot by Francoists
90
years ago
1934-10-19
Spanish army reduced the Asturian Revolution with huge repression
90
years ago
1934-10-09
Armed workers shot in the port of Pasaia with the Turmoil Guard and the Civil Guard
90
years ago
1934-10-08
The Civil Guard shot Emilio Iguzkiza in Altsasu with her 14-month-old son in arms
90
years ago
1934-10-06
Lluis Companys proclaimed the Republic of Catalonia from the balcony of the Generalitat
90
years ago
1934-10-06
Shootings between strikers in the Mining Area and the Spanish army during the October Revolution
90
years ago
1934-10-05
The October Revolution begins, with special impact on Eibar, Arrasate and the Left Margin of Bizkaia
90
years ago
1934-10-05
The Arrasate strikers took the people during the October Revolution and arrested the authorities
95
years ago
1929-10-29
There was the 'Krak 29' in the American stock market.
95
years ago
1929-10-24
Craca starts at 29 and as a consequence the Great Depression
95
years ago
1929-10-18
Women in Canada acquired legal status
110
years ago
1914-10-21
The thumb Pierre Etxeberri was shot by the French army, I. Accused of deserting the World War
135
years ago
1889-10-18
Death in New York Antonio Meucci, a man who invented the phone but didn't take credit