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King Leopoldo II of Belgium proclaimed that Congo was his personal colony

139

years ago

01 July 1885,

King Leopoldo II of Belgium proclaimed that Congo was his personal colony. Then they lived one of the cruellest examples of European colonialism. Acquired at the Berlin Conference, it managed the territory privately until in 1908 it annexed its property to Belgium. Between eight and ten million people died in Congo.

1789 The Navarro guerrilla Xabier Mina was born in Otao

1968Five people were arrested in Bermeo at the end of the Mass in memory of Txabi Etxebarrieta

2012Thousands of people demonstrated in the Chinese city of Shifang against the opening of a chemical plant

2015Euskaltel goes to Bolsa

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1885-07-01

King Leopoldo II of Belgium proclaimed that Congo was his personal colony

1885-12-24

The Basque weekly Escualdun Gazeta publishes its first issue in Los Angeles, USA

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10

years ago

2014-07-02

Israeli settlers kidnapped Mohammed Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem

20

years ago

2004-07-25

800 people destroyed a GM corn farm in Menville, France

20

years ago

2004-07-08

The body of Basque prisoner Oihane Errazkin was found in prison

25

years ago

1999-07-22

Woodstock festival begins in New York, which would be a disaster

30

years ago

1994-07-27

Photojournalist Kevin Carter committed suicide in South Africa

30

years ago

1994-07-14

The musical group Parabellum offered a concert in Barakaldo's court at the same time as Lino Prieto's unmissable trial

35

years ago

1989-07-05

Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case

45

years ago

1979-07-27

Marielle Franco is born, Afro-Brazilian feminist and socialist activist

45

years ago

1979-07-20

Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier fled jail with two other colleagues in the United States

45

years ago

1979-07-19

FSLN guerrillas entered the Nicaraguan capital of Managua and ended the Somoza dictatorship

50

years ago

1974-07-06

A command released ETA member Jon Urzelai, who was detained at Donostia hospital

55

years ago

1969-07-20

American spaceship Apollo 11 reaches the moon

70

years ago

1954-07-13

Frida Kahlo dies in Mexico City

80

years ago

1944-07-27

Florentino Goikoetxea, border of the Comète Network, was released from Nazi hands by resistance members at the hospital in Baiona

80

years ago

1944-07-22

The establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

80

years ago

1944-07-20

German officer Klaus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler

80

years ago

1944-07-03

Red Army enters the ghetto of Minsk

90

years ago

1934-07-05

San Francisco police killed two workers in the United States

110

years ago

1914-07-28

I. World War breaks, when disputes between European empires reached their peak

115

years ago

1909-07-31

The Barcelona riots ended, the last days of the 'Tragic Week'

130

years ago

1894-07-14

Exhibition of the first ikurrina on the balcony of the Bilbao Batzokija

185

years ago

1839-07-02

53 Africans were raised aboard the boat 'La Amistad' for the sale of slaves in Cuba

230

years ago

1794-07-27

Deported robbers agreed to return home

230

years ago

1794-07-24

Napoleonic troops won the battle of Baztan and entered Hego Euskal Herria during the Convention War

235

years ago

1789-07-01

The Navarro guerrilla Xabier Mina was born in Otao

415

years ago

1609-07-02

Inquisitor Pierre de Lancre starts witch hunting in Lapurdi