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Giant demonstration in Japan against the placement of US troops on the island

64
years ago

20 May 1960,

a major demonstration in Japan against the pact that would allow US troops to be placed on the island. The day before, they voted in favour of the pact in Parliament, after the Socialist Party which opposed it was dragged by the police.

On this day
1873Nace Mañex Etxamendi in Ezterenzubi, bertsolari and writer bajonavarro
1974Roke Mendez and Joxe Luis Mondragon, members of ETA, were gunned down in the Hondarribia moat
197815,000 people tried to block Narita airport on the day it opened in Japan

This year in history: < >
From newest From oldest

1960-01-05
Anti-Francoist Maqui guerrilla Quico Sabaté was killed by the Civil Guard
1960-02-01
Four African-American students sat in a cafeteria where blacks were banned from entering the United States.
1960-02-13
France conducted its first nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara
1960-03-05
Alberto Córdoba made an iconic photograph of Ernesto Che Guevara
1960-03-10
She arrived in Australia from Euskal Herria and from the Spanish State the first woman plane sent by Franco
1960-03-21
The apartheid regime led to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa
1960-05-20
Giant demonstration in Japan against the placement of US troops on the island
1960-06-15
Police killed 22-year-old Kanba in Tokyo
1960-06-26
Madagascar proclaims its independence with France
1960-08-21
Ernest Hemingway authorized José Artetxe to translate to Basque the novel Agurea eta itsasoa
1960-09-14
U.S.-led coup d'état against Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo
1960-09-27
Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist activist dies
1960-11-03
Cameroon's anti-colonial leader was poisoned to death in Geneva: Felix-Roland Moumié
1960-11-25
In Santo Domingo died the sisters Minerva, María Teresa and Patricia Mirabal, activists against dictator Trujillo
1960-12-18
Victoria Eugenia from Donostia hosted the first post-war Bertsolaris National Championship
1960-12-30
Mexican army assaults student movement and kills 20 in Chilpancingo

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

10
years ago
2014-05-24
Stormé DeLarverie dies in New York
10
years ago
2014-05-02
Ukrainian neo-nazis killed 48 people in the Union House of Odessa
15
years ago
2009-05-07
Patxi López took over as president of the CAV, taking advantage of the fact that the Abertzale left was illegalized.
20
years ago
2004-05-09
Cadyrov is killed by the Chechenese in an attack, the man of trust and the president of Russia, Putin
30
years ago
1994-05-11
The KEM Group took action in favour of input into the Bilbao Military Government
30
years ago
1994-05-07
A group of young people occupied the gaztetxe Euskal Jai of Pamplona
30
years ago
1994-05-07
One hundred Navarros Passions Closed the Lap to Spain Stage
35
years ago
1989-05-12
They sent the Attorney General of Spain the "Navajas Report" on the Civil Guard's relationship with EH's heroin.
40
years ago
1984-05-19
13 members of Navarra were expelled from the party by the PNV executive assembly
45
years ago
1979-05-11
The workers of the port of Bizkaia refused to download the materials intended for the Lemoiz plant
45
years ago
1979-05-04
ETA boss Txomin Iturbe was shot at a minibus in Biarritz when he was travelling by car
50
years ago
1974-05-20
Roke Mendez and Joxe Luis Mondragon, members of ETA, were gunned down in the Hondarribia moat
50
years ago
1974-05-12
The Tximist expedition was 320 meters from the Everest Summit
55
years ago
1969-05-30
Viola's case, which refused to hide with her rapist, shook Italy
55
years ago
1969-05-25
A group of entrepreneurs managed to stay half a year after recruiting people for the Vietnam War
55
years ago
1969-05-06
Deusto University students boycotted the US Army music band
80
years ago
1944-05-26
Marseille workers started a general strike in the middle of World War II
100
years ago
1924-05-06
Nestor Basterretxea was born in Bermeo
115
years ago
1909-05-01
San Sebastian first hosts the red flag
190
years ago
1834-05-05
The newspaper El Correo del Norte published the first newspaper article in Basque from Hego Euskal Herria.
390
years ago
1634-05-23
The leaders of the salt rebellion detained in Bilbao