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Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case

35
years ago

05 July 1989,

Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case. In the war between Iraq and Iran, weapons were sold to Irani and it was shown that with that money the US government funded the paramilitaries Contra the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

On this day
1811Venezuela proclaimed independence by taking advantage of the fact that Spain was at war with France
1857Clara Zetkin is born, one of the main drivers of International Women’s Day
1934San Francisco police killed two workers in the United States
2015Greece decided by referendum not to approve the EU and IMF reduction plans

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1989-01-22
ETA and the Government of Spain set up the negotiating table for Algiers
1989-02-14
Iranian imam Khomeini ordered the writer Salman Rushdie to be murdered for his novel 'Satanic verses'
1989-03-16
A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL
1989-03-24
Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska
1989-03-26
A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun
1989-04-18
A group of conscientious objectors interrupted the passage of a military convoy in Vitoria
1989-05-12
They sent the Attorney General of Spain the "Navajas Report" on the Civil Guard's relationship with EH's heroin.
1989-06-05
A man stood before a bunch of tanks in Beijin, China.
1989-07-05
Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case
1989-08-23
Two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain of 675 kilometres for the independence of their peoples
1989-09-05
Government banned the issuance of TV3 in Valencian Country
1989-10-18
The Leitzaran Highway Coordinator started an indefinite camp
1989-10-19
Fire at the Vandellòs I nuclear power plant in Tarragona
1989-11-02
Nun Dianna Ortiz, who worked with indigenous people, was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan military
1989-11-20
HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress
1989-12-20
US invades Panama
1989-12-30
In the march of the Herrera de la Mancha, 12,000 people met in Madrid

This month's anniversaries:
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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