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Bilbao was bombed by German aircraft and five people died

87
years ago

04 January 1937,

Bilbao was bombed by German aircraft with five deaths. Republican aviation managed to knock down one German aircraft and two out of six crew members managed to save it by parachute. One of them fell in a working-class neighborhood and was lynched.

The bombings caused discomfort and the mass demonstrations led by the UGT battalions broke out in the prisons where Francoist prisoners were. 224 were executed.

The Basque Government stepped up this insurrection and prevented the death of more Franco prisoners.

Source:

José Manuel Azcona Pastor and Julen Lezamiz Lugarezaresti, “The assaults to Bilbao jails on 4 January 1937” (2012).

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Franco government announced the maritime blockade of Bilbao
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The Unit of Phalanx reported that in Donostia there was a lot of Basque and Catalan
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1937-04-26
Fascist planes bombed Gernika
1937-05-04
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1937-05-04
The Turkish army kicked off the Dersim massacre against the Kurds
1937-05-21
The ship Havana left the port of Santurtzi to the United Kingdom with 3,868 refugee children under the age of 15
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
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1937-06-13
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1937-06-14
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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
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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
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