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Icelandic women went on strike and stopped the country

49
years ago

24 October 1975,

Icelandic women went on strike called by the feminist movement. They claimed the strength of their work and denounced the wage gap and precarious conditions. It had a continuity of 90% and the following year Parliament passed the law to ensure equal pay.

On this day
1929Craca starts at 29 and as a consequence the Great Depression
1947Walt Disney denounces leftist workers
1970Salvador Allende was appointed president of Chile after the elections of the coalition of leftist parties
2002Three EHE members chained to the table in the Osakidetza test, as they qualified Euskera as merit

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1975-01-07
The miners of Potas de Navarra start closing
1975-01-17
Decriminalized abortion in Iparralde
1975-01-20
Victor Manuel Pérez Elexpe was killed by the Civil Guard in Portugalete
1975-04-13
Lebanon’s extreme right storms a Palestinian bus and Lebanese Civil War starts
1975-05-23
Civil Guard killed young Koldo Arriola at Ondarroa headquarters
1975-06-05
Death of Gabriel Aresti
1975-06-13
A young Frenchman burned to report the situation of the Basque Country
1975-07-17
Death of Johañe Pitrau, Southern leader who awakens montane peasants
1975-09-27
Franco regimes that executed 'Txiki' and members of ETA Otaegi
1975-09-28
Two players from the Racing de Santander left with the black arm in honor of those executed the day before by the Franco
1975-10-24
Icelandic women went on strike and stopped the country
1975-11-06
Moroccans started a green march occupying Western Sahara
1975-11-20
They reported the death of dictator Franco
1975-11-22
Juan Carlos de Borbón was named king by the Spanish Francoist Courts
1975-11-25
Several South American countries secretly signed the Condor Plan for the Persecution of Thousands of Left

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