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15,000 people tried to block Narita airport on the day it opened in Japan

46
years ago

20 May 1978,

15,000 people tried to block Narita airport on the day it opened in Japan. It started with a children's march followed by the Protestants in a wheelchair. With 14,000 police officers, serious incidents began when they used the water gun. A group of students also managed to interrupt the air circulation. The airport was built without permission on peasant lands.

On this day
1873Nace Mañex Etxamendi in Ezterenzubi, bertsolari and writer bajonavarro
1960Giant demonstration in Japan against the placement of US troops on the island
1974Roke Mendez and Joxe Luis Mondragon, members of ETA, were gunned down in the Hondarribia moat

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1978-01-15
In Barcelona the Scala room was set on fire by a police confidant and led to an operation against anarchists
1978-01-19
They abolished the penalty of adultery in Hego Euskal Herria
1978-02-26
Four days before Tokyo Narita International Airport opens its doors in Japan, major protests
1978-03-19
5,000 workers of the company Babcock & Wilcox of Sestao occupied the plant
1978-03-26
The Basque Country Peninsular celebrated the first Aberri Eguna after Franco
1978-04-01
The Neighbourhood Associations of Gabrirota and Orereta called for “kidnapping” and demonstrated with seven public buses
1978-05-20
15,000 people tried to block Narita airport on the day it opened in Japan
1978-05-25
In New Zealand the police evicted the majorities occupying the lands of Bastion Point
1978-05-26
Adultery ceased to be a crime in Spain
1978-06-06
Hundreds of Firestone strike workers in Bilbao blocked the Bilbao bank
1978-06-25
The rainbow flag was first used as a symbol of the LGTB collective
1978-07-08
German Rodríguez is killed by the Spanish Police in the Sanfermines of Pamplona
1978-07-11
Spanish police killed Joseba Barandiaran in San Sebastian
1978-07-13
200 Spanish policemen assaulted Errenteria assaulting people, shooting windows and stealing in shops
1978-11-27
They formed the Kurdistan Workers' Party: CPC
1978-12-06
Hego Euskal Herria rejected the Spanish Constitution
1978-12-21
Spanish secret services killed 'Argala' with explosives in Angelu, one of ETA's historic bosses

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-05-24
Stormé DeLarverie dies in New York
10
years ago
2014-05-02
Ukrainian neo-nazis killed 48 people in the Union House of Odessa
15
years ago
2009-05-07
Patxi López took over as president of the CAV, taking advantage of the fact that the Abertzale left was illegalized.
20
years ago
2004-05-09
Cadyrov is killed by the Chechenese in an attack, the man of trust and the president of Russia, Putin
30
years ago
1994-05-11
The KEM Group took action in favour of input into the Bilbao Military Government
30
years ago
1994-05-07
A group of young people occupied the gaztetxe Euskal Jai of Pamplona
30
years ago
1994-05-07
One hundred Navarros Passions Closed the Lap to Spain Stage
35
years ago
1989-05-12
They sent the Attorney General of Spain the "Navajas Report" on the Civil Guard's relationship with EH's heroin.
40
years ago
1984-05-19
13 members of Navarra were expelled from the party by the PNV executive assembly
45
years ago
1979-05-11
The workers of the port of Bizkaia refused to download the materials intended for the Lemoiz plant
45
years ago
1979-05-04
ETA boss Txomin Iturbe was shot at a minibus in Biarritz when he was travelling by car
50
years ago
1974-05-20
Roke Mendez and Joxe Luis Mondragon, members of ETA, were gunned down in the Hondarribia moat
50
years ago
1974-05-12
The Tximist expedition was 320 meters from the Everest Summit
55
years ago
1969-05-30
Viola's case, which refused to hide with her rapist, shook Italy
55
years ago
1969-05-25
A group of entrepreneurs managed to stay half a year after recruiting people for the Vietnam War
55
years ago
1969-05-06
Deusto University students boycotted the US Army music band
80
years ago
1944-05-26
Marseille workers started a general strike in the middle of World War II
100
years ago
1924-05-06
Nestor Basterretxea was born in Bermeo
115
years ago
1909-05-01
San Sebastian first hosts the red flag
190
years ago
1834-05-05
The newspaper El Correo del Norte published the first newspaper article in Basque from Hego Euskal Herria.
390
years ago
1634-05-23
The leaders of the salt rebellion detained in Bilbao