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friday 19 july 2024

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Start a 50-day general strike against the French occupation in Syria

88

years ago

20 January 1936,

A 50-day general strike was launched against the French occupation in Syria. They denounced the repression against the Syrian independence party National Bloc.

They arrested the whole country and forced France to negotiate with the National Bloc.

1973They killed bissauta Amílcar Cabral, leader of the anti-colonial struggle against Portugal

1975Victor Manuel Pérez Elexpe was killed by the Civil Guard in Portugalete

1980Four people were killed by the extreme right GAE terrorist group with the bomb in Alonsotegi

2005Giant human chains surrounded Coca-Cola and Pepsi factories in India

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1936-01-20

Start a 50-day general strike against the French occupation in Syria

1936-01-29

Workers occupied the Firestone factory and started a sit-down strike in Ohio, USA

1936-02-28

Canada withdrew charges against the leaders of displaced workers to Ottawa

1936-05-28

35,000 workers occupied the Renault plant in Paris

1936-06-13

August Landmesser rejects a Nazi gesture with his arm raised in an act presided over by Hitler

1936-06-28

Anarchist Alexander Berkman committed suicide

1936-07-18

When General Francisco Franco was one of the chiefs, part of the Spanish army hit a coup d'état.

1936-07-21

Marina Ginestà, a 17-year-old anti-fascist militant, receives this photo by photographer Juan Guzmán

1936-07-22

Francoist aircraft seized and bombed Otxandio during the Santamaña celebration

1936-07-24

The column headed from Durru left Barcelona to Zaragoza in the hands of fascists

1936-07-26

Republican aircraft bombed Loiola's barracks in San Sebastian

1936-07-28

The militiamen brought the Francoists out of San Sebastian, Loiola's headquarters

1936-08-03

Black athlete Jesse Owens won the gold medal at the Hitler Olympic Games in Berlin

1936-08-08

The French Government closes the border with the Spanish State

1936-08-10

The burning stones that killed the Pamplona teacher Camino Oskoz and threw into the void in Urbasa

1936-08-11

Francoists burned books in Basque at the Plaza Vieja de Tolosa

1936-08-15

14 year old Marvels Lamberto was killed by Francoists in Larraga (Navarra)

1936-08-19

The Battle of Irun enters a decisive phase

1936-08-19

Granadan poet Federico García Lorca was shot by Francoists

1936-08-23

52 Republican prisoners were shot by the Francoists in Navarra, in the Valcaldera de Cadreita

1936-08-30

Juana Josefa Goñi and her six children were thrown into the cave of Legarre in Gaztelu

1936-09-07

Death of the last Tasmanian tiger or marsupial wolf in Benjamin

1936-09-13

The pilot Felix Urtubi Erzilla de Elorrio, specifically dedicated to a Franco aeroplane, died

1936-09-22

Bergara and Deba fall into the hands of the Francoist army

1936-09-25

The Basque Government set up the Basque Army to fight the Franco army

1936-09-25

Estella's military commander banned the word 'goodbye' by a side

1936-09-26

Francoist aircraft bombed Bilbao

1936-09-26

Franchises in Arrasate

1936-10-02

Hundreds of left recruited against their will at the Francoist Sanjurjo Tertiary were imprisoned in Zaragoza

1936-10-17

Francoists fused the writer, Euskaltzale and Abertzale ecclesiastical 'Aitzol'

1936-10-22

Born Bobby Seale, one of the founders of the Black Panther of Self-Defense

1936-11-02

The Soviet boat Andreev came armed to the port of Bilbao

1936-11-03

Two young Counterparts, sentenced to 12 years in prison, advised a soldier to remove her and fired with the word "abur".

1936-11-13

700 Irish Brigade soldiers joined Francoists

1936-11-15

First fight by the Basque Army

1936-11-20

Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti dies in Madrid

1936-12-05

The crew of the Franco vessel Virgen del Carmen was raided and transferred to Bilbao

1936-12-20

Statue of Spanish General Prim in Barcelona

This month's anniversaries:
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10

years ago

2014-01-31

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia ordered that the teaching of the fourth part of the subjects be carried out in Spanish, at the request of a single student

10

years ago

2014-01-06

Goodyear workers prevented the departure of two company executives in the city of Amiens

15

years ago

2009-01-24

Obama, US President, ordered his first drone attack and killed eighteen civilians in Pakistan

15

years ago

2009-01-17

The Ertzaintza rebelled against the TAV protest in Urbina

15

years ago

2009-01-03

An anti-militarist parody called on citizens to put more money for military spending in Bilbao

25

years ago

1999-01-30

They published the first issue of the newspaper 'Gara' after thousands of citizens bought shares.

25

years ago

1999-01-06

Disguised as Reyes Magos supported Basque prisoners chained on the outskirts of the Spanish Congress

30

years ago

1994-01-11

The Irish government suspended the ban on Sinn Féin and IRA members appearing in the media

30

years ago

1994-01-01

Chiapas peasants and indigenous people rebelled against the Mexican government

35

years ago

1989-01-22

ETA and the Government of Spain set up the negotiating table for Algiers

40

years ago

1984-01-27

Martina Maritorena, 78, was expelled from her house and started camping in Castle Square

40

years ago

1984-01-21

Creation of the Free Land Movement in Brazil: MST

45

years ago

1979-01-14

The Civil Guard rebelled against the concentration against the Lemoiz power plant in Mungia

50

years ago

1974-01-25

Eli Gallastegi, passionate pro-independence politician, dies Gudari in San Juan de Luz

55

years ago

1969-01-24

The Franco regime established an emergency situation throughout the Spanish State.

55

years ago

1969-01-19

Boycott of San Sebastian Eve in Donostia

55

years ago

1969-01-16

The young Jan Palach caught fire in Prague against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

55

years ago

1969-01-07

Members of Canadian countries protested against the company Manitoba Hydro, which sank its territory

60

years ago

1964-01-12

Zanzibar Revolution Bursts in East Africa

65

years ago

1959-01-08

The Caravan of Freedom enters Havana, presided over by Fidel Castro

65

years ago

1959-01-01

Cuban revolution rounded the victory in Santiago

80

years ago

1944-01-26

Born Angela Davis, left-wing entrepreneur, feminist and African-American

85

years ago

1939-01-05

Amelia Earthart was officially declared dead, the first woman crossing the Atlantic and Pacific

90

years ago

1934-01-18

General strike in Portugal against dictator Salazar

90

years ago

1934-01-10

The Nazis executed the Dutch Marinus van der Lubbe, accused of burning Reichstaga

95

years ago

1929-01-11

Seven-hour working day in the Soviet Union

100

years ago

1924-01-21

Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and first president of the government dies

100

years ago

1924-01-10

Eduardo Chillida was born in Donostia

100

years ago

1924-01-03

Ulyana Gromova, symbol of Nazi resistance in the Soviet Union

105

years ago

1919-01-31

Serious disturbances in Glasgow to 60,000 workers who, when attacked by the police, were meeting in favour of lower days

105

years ago

1919-01-24

In the Irish city of Monaghan, nurses occupied the hospital and declared sovereignty.

105

years ago

1919-01-16

They confirmed in the US the so-called dry law: they banned the production, trade and transportation of alcoholic beverages

105

years ago

1919-01-15

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed Germany's leading political leaders

105

years ago

1919-01-14

Rosa Luxembourg published her last article on the eve of her murder

105

years ago

1919-01-10

German workers' councils and the Spartakist League proclaimed the Soviet Republic of Bremen

105

years ago

1919-01-05

Spartanchist Uprising inspired by the Russian Revolution begins in Berlin

105

years ago

1919-01-01

They published the first issue of Sky Light.

120

years ago

1904-01-01

The Bizkaia miners' strike ended with the workers' victory

125

years ago

1899-01-06

They successfully premiered the first opera in Euskera: Txanton Piperri

145

years ago

1879-01-22

In South Africa 20,000 holes attacked a British army camp in the battle of Islandlwana

150

years ago

1874-01-13

The New York police attacked the protest of the unemployed, the largest demonstration so far

150

years ago

1874-01-09

José de Amezola was born in Urkabustaiz, the first Basque athlete to win the medal at the Olympic Games

180

years ago

1844-01-19

Tolosa was declared capital of Gipuzkoa by royal decree

230

years ago

1794-01-11

French as the only language for official documents

375

years ago

1649-01-30

King Charles I was cut off

415

years ago

1609-01-27

First arrests and start of witch hunt in Zugarramurdi

425

years ago

1599-01-22

Juan Oñate, conqueror of Gipuzkoan origin in Mexico, ordered the massacre against the Acoma