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Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting

21

years ago

10 September 2003,

In Mexico, peasant and union leader Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide with a knife. The World Trade Organisation was on the outskirts of an assembly being held in Cancun, opposite the television cameras. Since then, a day has been declared against the WTO and the Free Trade Agreements.

1512La Baja Navarra was invaded by the Spanish army

1694Death of Joanes Zuhigaraitxipi, Basque Corsario born in Hendaia

1943Organization of workers in the Italian city of Piombino and weapons against Nazi occupation

1981Picasso's Guernica was transferred to Madrid from the MoMa Museum in New York

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2003-01-12

A failure at the Garoña nuclear power plant forced the reactor to stop while working at all power stations.

2003-01-18

24 Navarros mayors announced that they would not comply with the Symbols Act and the Basque Foral Decree.

2003-02-06

Nigerian Stella Obasanjo made official statement against female genital mutilation

2003-02-15

25 million took to the streets in over 100 countries against the invasion of Iraq

2003-02-20

The Spanish Civil Guard forcibly closed the 'Diario Vasco'

2003-02-21

The workers of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria' published the journal 'Everyday', demonstrating that they would not silence them.

2003-02-22

One of Donostia's biggest protests to denounce the closure of the 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'

2003-03-19

Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad, even though the US announced a war against Iraq

2003-03-20

U.S. and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq

2003-04-05

Seven activists enter the Bardenas shooting camp protesting the Iraq War

2003-04-29

Judge Baltasar Garzón arrested eight members of Udalbiltza and ordered the closure of his headquarters

2003-05-03

Illegalization of 241 popular platforms in Hego Euskal Herria

2003-06-21

The first issue of the journal Berria was published

2003-06-22

José Bové was arrested and taken by helicopter to jail

2003-06-30

UNESCO declared that half of the world ' s languages will disappear at the end of the twenty-first century

2003-07-23

Miguel Sanz, president of Navarra, pointed out that the classes teaching the history of the Basque Country had to be punished.

2003-08-02

Extreme heat wave hits Euskal Herria

2003-08-11

Dozens of young people first approached San Sebastian

2003-09-10

Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting

2003-09-30

The excavators demolished the town of Artozki, amid the resistance of the solidary

2003-10-09

Greenpeace action at the Garoña nuclear power plant requesting its closure

2003-11-08

Demos organised a mus championship on the Baiona tracks

2003-11-29

Death of Sara Fernandez, from Malaga, when he visited a Basque prisoner

This month's anniversaries:
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10

years ago

2014-09-26

Mexican police kidnaps and removes 43 students from Ayotzinapa with the help of drug traffickers

10

years ago

2014-09-23

400 people built a popular wall in Loiola, dressed up, to protect five young people the police wanted to arrest.

10

years ago

2014-09-18

In Scotland they held a referendum on independence and lost little

20

years ago

2004-09-29

The PSOE government decided to release torturator Enrique Rodríguez Galindo

20

years ago

2004-09-21

Hondarribia youth Jokin Zeberio committed suicide because of school harassment

30

years ago

1994-09-18

The Civil Guard exploded Nafarroa Oinez de Bera

30

years ago

1994-09-08

The baserritars kidnapped the cheese with Ossau-Iraty designation of origin to denounce the prices of the department stores

35

years ago

1989-09-05

Government banned the issuance of TV3 in Valencian Country

40

years ago

1984-09-30

Mondragonese internationalist Pakito Arriaran killed in El Salvador

45

years ago

1979-09-01

Donostiarra Iñaki Kijera was shot by Spanish police during his demonstration in favor of refugees

50

years ago

1974-09-23

Spanish police arrested Eva Forest in Madrid

50

years ago

1974-09-13

ETA shot a bomb at the Rolando cafeteria in Madrid and killed many civilians

50

years ago

1974-09-11

Jon Urzelai was killed in Bilbao by the Civil Guard

50

years ago

1974-09-08

The neighbors of the Roman district of San Basilio rose up

60

years ago

1964-09-25

Mozambique's war of independence explodes to end 400-year-old Portuguese colonialism

65

years ago

1959-09-22

532 displaced children to the Soviet Union fleeing the 1936 war arrive in Valencia

85

years ago

1939-09-03

Winnipeg arrives in Chile with 2,200 refugees from the Spanish Republic

90

years ago

1934-09-09

The British fascist party didn't pass through London's Hyde Park

90

years ago

1934-09-09

A Falangist and a Socialist were killed in San Sebastian in two attacks

95

years ago

1929-09-27

Born Jose Luis Alvarez Enparantza Txillardegi in Donostia

110

years ago

1914-09-21

It was the bloodiest day for the Basques during World War I.

120

years ago

1904-09-22

Maurizia Aldeiturriaga Zabala was born in Zeberio

160

years ago

1864-09-28

Creation of the First International Labour Force in London, with the aim of organizing world workers

230

years ago

1794-09-19

Maialen Larralde was killed with guillotine in San Juan de Luz

280

years ago

1744-09-04

James Cook arrives in the Canary Islands

330

years ago

1694-09-10

Death of Joanes Zuhigaraitxipi, Basque Corsario born in Hendaia