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thursday 16 may 2024

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Soweto uprising starts in South Africa

48

years ago

16 June 1976,

Soweto's uprising begins in South Africa. 10,000 students took to the streets against the law that declared the language of the Afrikaans settlers as the school language of the country. They were also supported by the anti-apartheid movements. Police shot more than 200 young people in Johannesburg during the day’s incidents. It was a milestone against apartheid.

1944George Stinney, an innocent 14-year-old, is killed in the U.S. electric chair.

1946Ho Chi Minh visited San Juan de Luz, Azkaine and Sara

2018More than 80,000 people in Pamplona at the historic demonstration for the youth of Alsasua

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1976-03-03

Spanish police killed five workers and hundreds of shooting wounded in Vitoria

1976-03-04

Cegasa workers held a strike in Vitoria to denounce the massacre caused by the Spanish police the day before

1976-03-06

Spanish police killed a young man in Tarragona in protest against the Vitoria massacre

1976-03-08

Opening of the International Tribunal for Crimes against Women in Brussels

1976-03-24

Philippine military killed Maria Lorena Barros, founder of Makibaka women's militant organization

1976-03-27

24 hours in Basque at the Velódromo San Sebastián

1976-03-30

Palestinians launched a general strike against the Israeli Government ' s decision to expropriate their lands

1976-04-05

29 prisoners escaped from Segovia prison, most ETA members

1976-04-21

The civil guard arrested Anparo Arango and becomes the face of torture

1976-05-09

Ulrike Meinhof appears dead in Germany, a well-known AF member

1976-06-12

Pasaitarra Alberto Soliño Mazas was killed by a civil guard dressed in street in Eibar

1976-06-16

Soweto uprising starts in South Africa

1976-06-18

In Etxarri Aranatz five people were killed by a bomb abandoned by Spanish military

1976-06-27

Palestinian group kidnapped an Air France aircraft with 248 Israeli passengers

1976-07-09

Normi Mentxaka was killed in Santurce by the extreme right Guerrilleros of Cristo Rey

1976-07-10

Chemical accident in Seveso, Italy

1976-07-13

Left militant against the dictatorship Sara Méndez and her newborn were kidnapped in Buenos Aires during Operation Cóndor

1976-07-14

Jochen Peiper, a Nazi war criminal, dies in France after burning his house

1976-08-29

Over 50,000 people joined the antinuclear march between Plentzia and Gorliz

1976-08-30

Submitted the KAS Alternative in Pamplona

1976-09-09

Eleven women were arrested in Basauri on charges of abortion

1976-10-06

In Thailand, students and workers were murdered

1976-10-17

Basketball team Baskonia and Askatuak brought the ikurrina to the court in Mendizorroza de Vitoria

1976-11-07

Bertsolari 'Xalbador' dies in Urepel on the day of his tribute

1976-12-05

Real Sociedad and Athletic pulled out the ikurrina even though this was banned

1976-12-10

Five prisoners disappeared from Basauri prison

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

10

years ago

2014-06-20

In Wales they first organized Ras yr laith, the Korrika by the Galesa.

10

years ago

2014-06-08

The gigantic human chain that united Pamplona and Durango supported the right to decide

20

years ago

2004-06-21

In Vitoria he insulted the Juan Carlos I.ak, king of Spain, with his central finger in protest

25

years ago

1999-06-29

Turkey sentenced Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan to death

25

years ago

1999-06-19

The Supreme Court declared Southern Municipalities illegal to act only in Basque

30

years ago

1994-06-27

The Negu Gorria group offered a surprise concert at the Gipuzkoa court in a truck

30

years ago

1994-06-04

The Guipuzkoan inpassions “took” the island of Santa Clara of San Sebastian and claimed it as a demilitarized zone.

35

years ago

1989-06-05

A man stood before a bunch of tanks in Beijin, China.

40

years ago

1984-06-30

In Donostia there were very hard riots between protesters and the Spanish Police

40

years ago

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.

40

years ago

1984-06-18

Battle of Orgreav between striking miners and UK policemen

40

years ago

1984-06-15

The Civil Guard murdered two ETA members in Hernani with a grenade inside the house

40

years ago

1984-06-06

Joseba Elosegi recovered from the Spanish army museum the ikurrina of Francoists

45

years ago

1979-06-26

Mirentxu Purroy, director of the newspaper 'Egin', and Mikel Lmalda, director of trade, are arrested

45

years ago

1979-06-22

The plenary of the Ondarroa City Hall supported the disobedience campaigns being carried out to stop the Lemoiz nuclear power plant.

45

years ago

1979-06-10

'Francis' is killed by a street dress police in Errenteria

45

years ago

1979-06-03

A civil guard in Tudela killed ecologist entrepreneur Gladys del Estal

50

years ago

1974-06-15

Kevin Gately, a 20-year-old student killed in England by a horseback policeman with a blurry blow

55

years ago

1969-06-28

The United States was seriously disturbed at the Stonewall Inn in New York by police raid on homosexuals

55

years ago

1969-06-24

Black girl Vivian Strong, 14, shot to death by white American police

55

years ago

1969-06-17

The fourteen apostles of Jorge Oteiza ended their settlement in the Basilica of Arantzazu

60

years ago

1964-06-12

Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment

70

years ago

1954-06-26

The world's first nuclear power plant begins in the Russian city of Obninsk

75

years ago

1949-06-19

In Arrasate they arrested several leftists and trade unionists because the next day he was going to visit the town of Franco

75

years ago

1949-06-10

Franco's assassination attempt failed in Barcelona

75

years ago

1949-06-06

George Orwell published his 1984 novel

80

years ago

1944-06-29

The Nazis returned to the hospital and looted farms

80

years ago

1944-06-27

The Nazis carried out a raid in Zuberoa against the citizens of the Hospital

80

years ago

1944-06-16

George Stinney, an innocent 14-year-old, is killed in the U.S. electric chair.

80

years ago

1944-06-09

Antifascist Johanna Kirchner was executed by the Nazis in Berlin prison

85

years ago

1939-06-11

Pius XII. Pope welcomed a Francoist delegation to the Vatican

100

years ago

1924-06-03

Franz Kafka dies in Vienna

110

years ago

1914-06-28

Sarajevo, Bosnia, is the scene of the First World War murder

130

years ago

1894-06-24

Anarchist Caserio killed French President Sadi Carnot in public

150

years ago

1874-06-09

Death of Cochise, leader of txirikahua apaches

270

years ago

1754-06-15

Juan José Elhuyar was born in Logroño

825

years ago

1199-06-05

Castellanos started the site of Vitoria