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Catalan Ramón Mercader killed León Trotski playing with a piolet in Mexico City

84

years ago

21 August 1940,

Catalan Ramón Mercader murdered León Trotski playing with a piolet in Mexico City. After the death of Lenin and the loss of the power struggle against Stalin, Trotski, leader of the Red Army, was first expelled from the party and after the Soviet Union in 1929. He spent his whole life in exile. From Mexico he tried to write against Stalinism and organize his followers. After surviving numerous attempts to attack him, he was killed by Mercadona, Soviet secret agent NKVD, on behalf of Stalin.

Source:

Josep Fontana, The Century of Revolution. Munduko history bat 1914etik. (Ed. Criticism)

1791The Haitian Revolution begins when 100,000 slaves rise up with weapons against the government in the French colony of Saint-Domingue

1892The Zazpiak bat of Euskal Herria was publicly displayed for the first time

1960Ernest Hemingway authorized José Artetxe to translate to Basque the novel Agurea eta itsasoa

This year in history: < >

From newest From oldest

1940-04-04

The first Basques reached the Gurs concentration camp

1940-05-14

Emma Goldman dies, anarchist and activist for female emancipation

1940-06-23

They opened a kind of human zoo in Lisbon.

1940-07-24

Nazi German army arrived in Iparralde and occupied part of the border

1940-08-06

The history of Basque deportation II begins. In the World War

1940-08-13

Catalan President Lluís Companys is arrested by Brittany Gestapo

1940-08-21

Catalan Ramón Mercader killed León Trotski playing with a piolet in Mexico City

1940-10-23

Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco met in Euskal Herria, at Hendaia train station

1940-12-02

The Franco authorities ordered the abolition and placement of entries in Basque from the cemetery of Amorebieta

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

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

Born Madeleine Riffaud in Arvillers, France

120

years ago

1904-08-18

Born Maria Magunazelaia Loroño, first cyclist in the Basque Country

120

years ago

1904-08-14

Bastilla Square in Paris became a battlefield between Apache groups and police

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

Bergara's hug between Carlists and liberals, another betrayal for Basques

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