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Philadelphia police dropped a bomb from a helicopter and killed 11 people in the United States

39
years ago

13 May 1985,

The Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter and killed 11 people in the United States. There was a shooting between activists from the environmental movement and the police for the release of black people called Move.

The activists took refuge in a house and continued with the police that surrounded it.

In the end, they were disproportionately bombed from a helicopter and destroyed 61 houses. Among the deaths were five children.

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Source:

Alan Yuhas, Philadelphia’s Osage Avenue police bombing, 30 years on: ‘This story is a parable’ (The Guardian, 13 May 2015).

On this day
1890The Biscayan miners started a historic strike
1958Nixon, US Vice President, had to flee from Caracas.
196810 million workers started one of the largest general strikes in French history in May 1968
1977Black Day in Euskal Herria, Amnesty Week

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1985-01-12
French Gendarmes killed independence leader Machoro in Kanaky Islands
1985-02-16
Antinuclear activists closed Iberduero headquarters in San Sebastian with brick and cement
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1985-04-13
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1985-04-13
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1985-04-22
Trial against the Argentine dictatorship in Buenos Aires begins
1985-05-13
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1985-05-30
Night shooting of the Ikastola Aitor of Donostia
1985-07-07
Political prisoners Sarrionandia and Pikabea fled Martutene prison
1985-07-10
Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior boat exploited by French secret services in New Zealand
1985-07-29
The Spanish Constitutional Court ordered the withdrawal of the Navarre shield from the Basque Government
1985-08-02
With peaks and mazas, the neighbors of San Ignacio de Bilbao broke the monument to the Blue Division to end the festivities
1985-08-03
Seaska blocked roads between Baiona and Hendaia with snail operation
1985-08-10
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1985-09-21
A bottle with a radioactive symbol appeared on the beach of the Concha de San Sebastián
1985-09-25
GAL killed four people in Baiona Monbar hotel attack
1985-10-25
The Government of Navarra publicly presented a law on zoning of the Basque Country
1985-10-27
Larratxo residents cut traffic and played a football game on the road to ask for sports infrastructure
1985-11-22
EHE blocked Zarautz's toll to demand receipts in Basque
1985-11-26
Civil Guard arrested Orbaizetarra Mikel Zabraise in Altza
1985-11-28
Oil Shell decided to hide its recent climate change report
1985-12-15
Mikel Zabaltza's body is tortured by the Civil Guard on the Bidasoa River

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