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Bobby Sands dies on 66th day of hunger strike, IRA member

43
years ago

05 May 1981,

In northern Ireland, IRA militant Bobby Sands died on the 66th day of the hunger strike. In fasting, Sands was elected to represent the Sinn Fein match. The strike was part of the long struggle to get the British Government to recognize its status as political prisoners.

Five years ago a “protest of blankets or heads” was made, refusing to dress the clothes of the jail. Hundreds of prisoners agreed that every week a person would start an indefinite hunger strike. Another nine people were on hunger strike in the coming weeks.

On this day
1521Call for the third attempt to recover the kingdom of Navarra begins
1834The newspaper El Correo del Norte published the first newspaper article in Basque from Hego Euskal Herria.
1863The walls surrounding San Sebastian began to collapse.
1991Nineteen municipalities founding the UEMA, Commonwealth of Basque Municipalities

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1981-01-18
New Cross Fire: Crime against the Black Community in London
1981-01-29
Military ETA kidnaps general engineer of Ryan Lemoiz's nuclear power plant
1981-02-04
The king of Spain sang 'Eusko gudariak' at the Casa de Juntas de Gernika
1981-02-13
Joxe Arrangi dies from Carabanchel's torture
1981-02-23
A group of Spanish military personnel led by Colonel Tejero attempted a coup d'état
1981-02-27
The bar Victor Fernández Otxoa was shot by Batallon Vasco Español
1981-02-28
100,000 people met to call for a nuclear plant to be shut down in Bonn, Germany
1981-04-27
Etchandy Industrial Millionaire Helicopter Exploded With Pump in Maule
1981-05-05
Bobby Sands dies on 66th day of hunger strike, IRA member
1981-05-07
Over 100,000 people at Bobby Sands funeral in Belfast
1981-05-10
Case Almería: The Civil Guard tortured and killed three young Spaniards believing they were from ETA
1981-06-09
A gigantic antinuclear symbol was placed on the dome of a reactor at the plant in Lemoiz.
1981-06-19
Kepa Crespo died after three months of hunger strike, prisoner of the Communist Party of Spain
1981-08-05
They annulled the marriage of reparation that legalized the rape of women in Italy
1981-08-08
Thomas McElwee, IRA prisoner on hunger strike, dies in prison Maze
1981-08-27
A group of women embark on the road from Wales to England against an American military base
1981-09-07
In Navarra the dantzaris of Ochagavía refused to dance to the military
1981-09-10
Picasso's Guernica was transferred to Madrid from the MoMa Museum in New York
1981-10-03
A seven-month hunger strike ended Northern Republican prisoners in Ireland
1981-10-04
Popular camp in Belagua against the military area
1981-12-09
Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal arrested

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