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saturday 11 may 2024

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U.S. and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq

21

years ago

20 March 2003,

The United States and its allies began the invasion of Iraq. The attack was carried out on the pretext of the weapons of mass destruction that they never found in Iraq for their “preventive self-defense.” More than a million deaths, many other transfers and thousands of people were tortured with the support of several countries, including the Spanish state of José María Aznar of the PP. Major anti-war protests were organized around the world.

An American Marine targets a citizen.

The demolition of the statue of Bagdaden Saddam Hussein was one of the most symbolic actions driven by the United States.

In the photo of the Azores, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President George Bush, and Spanish Government President José María Aznar. Four days later the attack began. (Sergio Barrenechea / EFE)

The United States destroyed much of the country. Subsequently, many American companies carried out reconstruction work.

Hundreds of thousands of wounded and mutilated civilians.

Numerous evidence of torture was leaked to the press.

1852The slavery novel 'Osaba Tome etxola' triumphed in America

1916Ota Bengoa killed himself in the cage with an orangutan at the New York Zoo

1999The body of Joxelu Geresta Mugika Ttotto, member of ETA, was found under an apple from a Errenteria farmhouse

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2003-01-12

A failure at the Garoña nuclear power plant forced the reactor to stop while working at all power stations.

2003-01-18

24 Navarros mayors announced that they would not comply with the Symbols Act and the Basque Foral Decree.

2003-02-06

Nigerian Stella Obasanjo made official statement against female genital mutilation

2003-02-15

25 million took to the streets in over 100 countries against the invasion of Iraq

2003-02-20

The Spanish Civil Guard forcibly closed the 'Diario Vasco'

2003-02-21

The workers of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria' published the journal 'Everyday', demonstrating that they would not silence them.

2003-02-22

One of Donostia's biggest protests to denounce the closure of the 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'

2003-03-19

Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad, even though the US announced a war against Iraq

2003-03-20

U.S. and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq

2003-04-05

Seven activists enter the Bardenas shooting camp protesting the Iraq War

2003-04-29

Judge Baltasar Garzón arrested eight members of Udalbiltza and ordered the closure of his headquarters

2003-05-03

Illegalization of 241 popular platforms in Hego Euskal Herria

2003-06-21

The first issue of the journal Berria was published

2003-06-22

José Bové was arrested and taken by helicopter to jail

2003-06-30

UNESCO declared that half of the world ' s languages will disappear at the end of the twenty-first century

2003-07-23

Miguel Sanz, president of Navarra, pointed out that the classes teaching the history of the Basque Country had to be punished.

2003-08-02

Extreme heat wave hits Euskal Herria

2003-08-11

Dozens of young people first approached San Sebastian

2003-09-10

Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting

2003-09-30

The excavators demolished the town of Artozki, amid the resistance of the solidary

2003-10-09

Greenpeace action at the Garoña nuclear power plant requesting its closure

2003-11-08

Demos organised a mus championship on the Baiona tracks

2003-11-29

Death of Sara Fernandez, from Malaga, when he visited a Basque prisoner

This month's anniversaries:
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5

years ago

2019-03-15

The Fridays for future climate movement celebrated its first international strike

20

years ago

2004-03-13

Baker Angel Berrueta was killed in Pamplona by a Spanish police and his son

20

years ago

2004-03-11

Al Qaeda in Madrid

25

years ago

1999-03-24

NATO launches bombing of Yugoslavia

25

years ago

1999-03-20

The body of Joxelu Geresta Mugika Ttotto, member of ETA, was found under an apple from a Errenteria farmhouse

35

years ago

1989-03-26

A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun

35

years ago

1989-03-24

Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska

35

years ago

1989-03-16

A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL

40

years ago

1984-03-23

The GAL shot dead Mondragonese refugee Xabier Pérez de Arenaza Sogorb in Biarritz

40

years ago

1984-03-22

Segmented against five members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commands at Pasai Donibane

40

years ago

1984-03-06

Start a historic strike by miners in the UK against Tatcher

40

years ago

1984-03-01

Didier Lafitte, a member of the American team, was killed by French police in Baiona

45

years ago

1979-03-28

Three Miles Island nuclear accident occurred in the United States

45

years ago

1979-03-03

23 Basque prisoners in Soria prison cut their veins

50

years ago

1974-03-23

Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime

50

years ago

1974-03-02

Salvador Puig Antich was executed by the Franco regime

60

years ago

1964-03-30

Gernika celebrated the Aberri Eguna, the first held in the South since 1936

65

years ago

1959-03-10

300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama palace to prevent the Chinese army from stopping it

70

years ago

1954-03-09

Bobby Sands is born in a Catholic family in Belfast

70

years ago

1954-03-01

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

75

years ago

1949-03-30

Following the protest against Iceland's entry into NATO in Reykjavik

75

years ago

1949-03-07

José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana Argala was born in Arrigorriaga

80

years ago

1944-03-27

US aircraft bombed Anglet and Biarritz

80

years ago

1944-03-25

76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III

80

years ago

1944-03-23

Italian anti-fascist partisans attack Nazis in Rome

85

years ago

1939-03-28

Francoists turned the fronton Euskal Jai of Pamplona into prison

85

years ago

1939-03-16

Prohibition of writing in Basque in Hego Euskal Herria

105

years ago

1919-03-04

Kinmel Park Matxinada begins in the Welsh town of Abergele

120

years ago

1904-03-06

José Antonio Agirre, first president of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, was born

125

years ago

1899-03-06

The pharmaceutical company Bayern recorded aspirin

145

years ago

1879-03-14

Albert Einstein is born, one of the most important scientists in history.

155

years ago

1869-03-24

In New Zealand the lifting of majorities against the British ends

165

years ago

1859-03-19

Josefa Ignacia Albisu Aranburu Joxpinaxi was born in Lazkao

180

years ago

1844-03-10

Born the Madrid musician Pablo Sarasate

190

years ago

1834-03-29

The Zumalacárregui army defeated the liberal troops between Abárzuza and Muro in Navarre

230

years ago

1794-03-13

Two young seafarers were murdered with guillotine for helping those wishing to leave the French Army

230

years ago

1794-03-03

Paris ordered the deportation of robbers

570

years ago

1454-03-09

An Italian explorer was born that would call the American continent: America Vespucio