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The US newspaper 'Washington Star' unveils Tuskege's experiment

52
years ago

25 July 1972,

The American newspaper Washington Star released the Tuskege experiment. It explained that poor black people with syphilis for 40 years were not treated by the government for scientists to investigate the evolution of the disease. The information that generated a great scandal and the adoption of measures for the protection of patients undergoing clinical trials since 1974.

Source:

Sonia Shah, “Clinical experiments with the Planet’s Poor” (Le Monde Diplomatique, July 2007).

On this day
1512Faced with the threat of the Castilian people destroying Pamplona, the mayor and several councilors handed over the city
1938The Battle of the Ebro begins, the longest and most violent battle of the 1936 War
2004800 people destroyed a GM corn farm in Menville, France
2010Wikileaks published 75,000 classified Afghanistan War documents

This year in history: < >
From newest From oldest

1972-01-30
'Bloody Sunday' or Blood Sunday in the city of Derry, northern Ireland
1972-02-20
Worker Juan José Munduate dies from torture at Indautxu police station
1972-02-28
Start of the trial against Angela Davis in the US
1972-03-03
Italian Red Brigade kidnapped Sit-Siemens director for an hour
1972-03-15
Jon Ugutz Goikoetxea was killed in his Civil Guard flight
1972-04-02
Irish public radio Raidio na Gaeltachta speaks of Gaelic
1972-05-06
Zeanuri priest was fined 150,000 pesetas for the withdrawal of the deceased Francoist commemoration
1972-07-07
The IRA delegation met in secret in London with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State
1972-07-25
The US newspaper 'Washington Star' unveils Tuskege's experiment
1972-09-02
Civil Guard killed 'Mikelon' and 'Xenki' in Lekeitio
1972-09-05
Palestinian group 'Irail beltza' murdered eleven Israeli athletes kidnapped at the Munich Olympic Games
1972-09-20
Jon Andoni Aranguren, member of ETA 'Iharra', was killed by the Civil Guard in Urdazubi/Urdax, shooting with a metralleta on his back
1972-10-11
Accused of abortion, a trial starts against a 16-year-old girl in France at the Bobigny children's court
1972-10-14
N’Guyen Van Dong died in Biarritz in solidarity with Basque refugees
1972-10-22
Vancouver feminist movements create SORWUC trade union in Canada
1972-11-01
They start publishing Wimmen's Comix, the first feminist comic book magazine.
1972-11-03
The Indian American Movement occupied the office of the Government for Indian Affairs
1972-12-16
Portuguese soldiers provoked the Wiriyamu massacre of Mozambican civilians

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