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There was one of the worst industrial disaster in the world, with explosions in the oil deposits PEMEX of San Juanico, Mexico

40
years ago

19 November 1984,

There was one of the worst industrial disaster in the world, with explosions in the oil deposits PEMEX of San Juanico, Mexico. There were 500 deaths and 5,000 wounded burned, 60,000 more had to move outside the village. It was subsequently demonstrated that the plant’s safety measures were clearly inadequate.

On this day
1933In Barakaldo killed Hermenegildo Alvariño, a Galician worker and ANV militant
193757 Basque Republican prisoners for enslavement in Seville died in train accident
1942Red Army counterattack on Nazi siege in Stalingrad
1969General strike for the right to housing in Italy

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1984-01-21
Creation of the Free Land Movement in Brazil: MST
1984-01-27
Martina Maritorena, 78, was expelled from her house and started camping in Castle Square
1984-02-08
Bixente Perurena Peru and Angel Gurmindo Stein were killed by the GAL in Hendaia
1984-02-16
Spanish police killed Iñaki Ojeda in Barakaldo negotiating her surrender
1984-02-25
Death of Eugenio Gutierrez Tigre in Idauze-Mendin GAL
1984-03-01
Didier Lafitte, a member of the American team, was killed by French police in Baiona
1984-03-06
Start a historic strike by miners in the UK against Tatcher
1984-03-22
Segmented against five members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commands at Pasai Donibane
1984-03-23
The GAL shot dead Mondragonese refugee Xabier Pérez de Arenaza Sogorb in Biarritz
1984-04-22
The Ertzaintza rebelled against the AEK demonstration before the Basque Parliament
1984-05-19
13 members of Navarra were expelled from the party by the PNV executive assembly
1984-06-06
Joseba Elosegi recovered from the Spanish army museum the ikurrina of Francoists
1984-06-15
The Civil Guard murdered two ETA members in Hernani with a grenade inside the house
1984-06-18
Battle of Orgreav between striking miners and UK policemen
1984-06-22
Ecologists picked up the contaminated water that a Hernani factory poured into the river and poured it into the plant's water supply.
1984-06-30
In Donostia there were very hard riots between protesters and the Spanish Police
1984-08-11
CCOO calls on Telefónica workers not to help police paint phones in Gipuzkoa
1984-09-30
Mondragonese internationalist Pakito Arriaran killed in El Salvador
1984-10-12
Margaret Thatcher was saved from the IRA attack shortly after
1984-11-04
The first free elections in the history of Nicaragua, after the victory of the Sandinista Revolution
1984-11-12
Four pacifists destroyed a nuclear missile hole in Missouri, USA
1984-11-16
Police arrested 2,000 rented tenants in South African city of Johannesburg
1984-11-19
There was one of the worst industrial disaster in the world, with explosions in the oil deposits PEMEX of San Juanico, Mexico
1984-11-20
Santi Brouard was killed by GAL in Bilbao
1984-11-22
Start a two-day general strike in Hego Euskal Herria to report the murder of Santi Brouard
1984-11-23
The Spanish Police entered the Euskalduna shipyard in Bilbao and caused the death of the worker Pablo González.
1984-12-02
In India, Bhopal chemical plant, the night of one of the most serious accidents in the world.
1984-12-03
At the Bhopal chemical plant, the early morning was one of the most serious accidents in the world, in India.
1984-12-09
Manoli Arza Sueskun was seriously injured in Pamplona by the GAL
1984-12-10
The Gay and Lesbian Mining Protection Association organized a festival in Britain to support the mining strike economically

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1984-11-22
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1984-11-20
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1984-11-19
There was one of the worst industrial disaster in the world, with explosions in the oil deposits PEMEX of San Juanico, Mexico
40
years ago
1984-11-16
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40
years ago
1984-11-12
Four pacifists destroyed a nuclear missile hole in Missouri, USA
40
years ago
1984-11-04
The first free elections in the history of Nicaragua, after the victory of the Sandinista Revolution
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Mikel Arrangi Marin was killed by the Civil Guard in Etxarri Aranaz
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1979-11-04
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1979-11-02
Assata Shakurre, a member of the Black Panthers, fled jail in the US
50
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1974-11-24
In Ethiopia, the Lucy skeleton, a fingerprint of human ancestors over 3 million years old, was discovered.
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1974-11-13
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55
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1969-11-19
General strike for the right to housing in Italy
55
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1969-11-12
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65
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1959-11-10
They closed the clandestine ikastola of Iralabarri (Bilbao)
70
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1954-11-01
Algerian War of Independence
75
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1949-11-18
In Nigeria, 21 Grebalaris miners and the people around fired at the Enagu coal mine owned by the British government.
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1949-11-02
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1939-11-17
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1609-11-30
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Mexican Basque Inquisitor Juan Zumarraga ordered a Aztec citizen to burn alive