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

12

years ago

01 July 2012,

Thousands of people demonstrated in the Chinese city of Shifang against the opening of a chemical plant. A workshop that would see residues that would be harmful both to the environment and to health. Police and government buildings were attacked for two days, until the authorities had to reject the plan.

1789 The Navarro guerrilla Xabier Mina was born in Otao

1885King Leopoldo II of Belgium proclaimed that Congo was his personal colony

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

2015Euskaltel goes to Bolsa

This year in history: < >

From newest From oldest

2012-01-13

Former Hidalgo Civil Guard who tortured many Basques dies in Jaén

2012-01-14

The Ertzaintza arrested Ekaitz Samaniego in Vitoria

2012-04-09

The young Iñigo Cabacas dies because of the ball launched by the Ertzaintza four days earlier

2012-07-01

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

2012-07-24

1,000 followers of the Andalusian trade union SAT occupied the Spanish military site ‘Las Turquilla’ for agriculture

2012-08-16

Police shot 34 miners at a demonstration in Marikana

2012-10-11

Australian Parliament asked for post-mortem forgiveness to athlete Peter Norman

2012-10-18

Greece held the 20th general strike called in two years

2012-10-20

John McConell, environmental and pacifist activist dies

2012-11-09

Baracaldesa Amaia Egaña committed suicide about to leave her home

2012-12-11

Teresa Spence, leader of the Canadian people of Attawapiskat, started a hunger strike with the Canadian Parliament

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

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