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A giant fire took place in Landeta

75

years ago

19 August 1949,

A large fire broke out in the camps. According to the study, the fire started in a sawmill in the Le Murat district of Saucats, caused by a cigarette. The fire quickly spread through the forest, aided by the wind, and burned 52,000 hectares. II. After the World War, the forest situation was very poor and the firewalls ate vegetation.

It caused 82 deaths and was the deadliest fire in the French state.

Source:

Wikipedia - Landeta forest fire in 1949.

1936The Battle of Irun enters a decisive phase

1936Granadan poet Federico García Lorca was shot by Francoists

1957The boat Azor de Franco killed five people in San Sebastian

1993Juan Calvo dies in Arkaute police station after being tortured by the Ertzaintza

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1949-02-18

From Vienna to Euskal Herria the first train filled with Austrian and German children

1949-03-07

José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana Argala was born in Arrigorriaga

1949-03-30

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

1949-06-06

George Orwell published his 1984 novel

1949-06-10

Franco's assassination attempt failed in Barcelona

1949-06-19

In Arrasate they arrested several leftists and trade unionists because the next day he was going to visit the town of Franco

1949-08-19

A giant fire took place in Landeta

1949-08-25

They finally managed to extinguish the fire in the Landeta forest

1949-11-02

The Francoist mayor of Gernika ordered the abolition and placement of the inscriptions in Basque from the cemetery

1949-11-18

In Nigeria, 21 Grebalaris miners and the people around fired at the Enagu coal mine owned by the British government.

1949-12-03

The first edition of Euskera International Day was held at the initiative of Eusko Ikaskuntza

1949-12-21

Thomas Sankara is born in Burkina Faso

This month's anniversaries:
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10

years ago

2014-08-09

Police killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, and great riots broke out across the United States.

25

years ago

1999-08-26

The second war in Chechnya began when Russia began the invasion of the country

25

years ago

1999-08-20

Action disguised as 'Giraldilla' at the opening of the World Athletics Championship

25

years ago

1999-08-12

Farmers dismantled the McDonald’s building in Millaun, France

30

years ago

1994-08-24

Carlos Bue Judge Imprisoned Journalist Pepe Rei

30

years ago

1994-08-24

The Filter massacre in Uruguay, two people killed by the police in the demonstration against the extradition of Basque refugees

30

years ago

1994-08-05

Two injunctions on arrest warrant planted at the headquarters of the Military Government of Bilbao

35

years ago

1989-08-23

Two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain of 675 kilometres for the independence of their peoples

40

years ago

1984-08-11

CCOO calls on Telefónica workers not to help police paint phones in Gipuzkoa

45

years ago

1979-08-30

American actor Jean Seberg, a follower of the Black Panthers, committed suicide

50

years ago

1974-08-28

Francoist police threw members of ETA Tupa and Tanke in San Sebastian

55

years ago

1969-08-17

The giant Woodstock music festival ends in New York State

55

years ago

1969-08-03

Felix Arnaiz Maeso was shot dead by a Spanish policeman in Rome

60

years ago

1964-08-31

Four people were fined in Sestao for playing txistu as an instrument

60

years ago

1964-08-11

Attempted attack on dictator Franco

60

years ago

1964-08-07

U.S. Congress approved the use of the army against North Vietnam

65

years ago

1959-08-25

Miles Davis is beaten by police in New York

75

years ago

1949-08-25

They finally managed to extinguish the fire in the Landeta forest

75

years ago

1949-08-19

A giant fire took place in Landeta

80

years ago

1944-08-24

Anti-fascist soldiers liberated the city of Paris occupied by the Nazis

80

years ago

1944-08-22

30 Spanish machines, with four members of the French resistance, defeated the column of the Nazi army, composed of 1,300 men

80

years ago

1944-08-22

Revolutionary trade unionist Maria Oneker killed by the Nazis in Warsaw in an uprising against occupation

80

years ago

1944-08-14

Italian fascists killed the Irma Partisan Flag

80

years ago

1944-08-10

Resistance member Daniel Argote was arrested and executed by the Nazis in Orthol

85

years ago

1939-08-18

Hitler's government launched a program to kill newborns with severe disabilities

90

years ago

1934-08-07

Irun postpologists, all women, went on strike and occupied the workshop

100

years ago

1924-08-23

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120

years ago

1904-08-18

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120

years ago

1904-08-14

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135

years ago

1889-08-14

The dockers of the London ports started a major strike

150

years ago

1874-08-27

Carlists took positions to siege Pamplona in the Second Carlist War

185

years ago

1839-08-31

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220

years ago

1804-08-18

Abando's neighbors joined the Begoña in the riot called Zamakolada

220

years ago

1804-08-16

Popular uprising known as Zamakolada begins in and around Bilbao

230

years ago

1794-08-29

French army burns Eibar and kills twelve citizens

230

years ago

1794-08-14

The General Meetings of Gipuzkoa propose the creation of an independent Republic of Gipuzkoa

230

years ago

1794-08-01

The mayor of San Sebastian, Mitxelena, contacted the French troops surrounding the city to negotiate surrender

235

years ago

1789-08-04

France destroys the outbreaks of the continental Basque Country Louis XVI