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Historia > Efemerideen kanala

Four African-American students sat in a cafeteria where blacks were banned from entering the United States.

64
years ago

01 February 1960,

In the United States, four African-American students from North Carolina entered and sat in the Greensboro Woolworth cafeteria, where blacks were banned. It was a protest against segregation. There he stayed for several days and joined many people.

On this day
1595Eleven people were arrested in Araitz, Navarra, on charges of "witchcraft"
1913The first issue of the journal Euzkadi was published
2002Victory of the Passions in Hego Euskal Herria
2020The United Kingdom left the member of the European Union after 47 years

This year in history: < >
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1960-01-05
Anti-Francoist Maqui guerrilla Quico Sabaté was killed by the Civil Guard
1960-02-01
Four African-American students sat in a cafeteria where blacks were banned from entering the United States.
1960-02-13
France conducted its first nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara
1960-03-05
Alberto Córdoba made an iconic photograph of Ernesto Che Guevara
1960-03-10
She arrived in Australia from Euskal Herria and from the Spanish State the first woman plane sent by Franco
1960-03-21
The apartheid regime led to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa
1960-05-20
Giant demonstration in Japan against the placement of US troops on the island
1960-06-15
Police killed 22-year-old Kanba in Tokyo
1960-06-26
Madagascar proclaims its independence with France
1960-08-21
Ernest Hemingway authorized José Artetxe to translate to Basque the novel Agurea eta itsasoa
1960-09-14
U.S.-led coup d'état against Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo
1960-09-27
Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist activist dies
1960-11-03
Cameroon's anti-colonial leader was poisoned to death in Geneva: Felix-Roland Moumié
1960-11-25
In Santo Domingo died the sisters Minerva, María Teresa and Patricia Mirabal, activists against dictator Trujillo
1960-12-18
Victoria Eugenia from Donostia hosted the first post-war Bertsolaris National Championship
1960-12-30
Mexican army assaults student movement and kills 20 in Chilpancingo

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-02-06
Police killed 15 people on Tarajal beach in Ceuta
25
years ago
1999-02-15
Kurdish Öcalan was arrested by CIA secret services, Mosad and Turkey in Kenya
25
years ago
1999-02-07
The Government of Ukraine again threatened the launching of the third reactor at the Chernobyle nuclear plant
35
years ago
1989-02-14
Iranian imam Khomeini ordered the writer Salman Rushdie to be murdered for his novel 'Satanic verses'
40
years ago
1984-02-25
Death of Eugenio Gutierrez Tigre in Idauze-Mendin GAL
40
years ago
1984-02-16
Spanish police killed Iñaki Ojeda in Barakaldo negotiating her surrender
40
years ago
1984-02-08
Bixente Perurena Peru and Angel Gurmindo Stein were killed by the GAL in Hendaia
45
years ago
1979-02-12
The World Climate Conference met for the first time in Geneva
45
years ago
1979-02-03
Ecologists managed to stop a convoy from Lemoniz to the Ascó II nuclear power station in Tarragona.
45
years ago
1979-02-03
100,000 women took to the streets against restricting their rights in Tehran
55
years ago
1969-02-04
The choirs of Santa Águeda boycotted the song
55
years ago
1969-02-04
Jasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestine Liberation Organization
70
years ago
1954-02-19
Socrates, footballer, doctor and activist is born against the Brazilian dictatorship
70
years ago
1954-02-11
In the Canary Islands, a concentration camp for the LGBTI group was opened.
75
years ago
1949-02-18
From Vienna to Euskal Herria the first train filled with Austrian and German children
80
years ago
1944-02-09
Gypsy boxer Rukeli was killed by the Nazis in Neuengamm concentration camp
85
years ago
1939-02-24
Supreme Court banned “fallen arms strikes”
85
years ago
1939-02-22
Antonio Machado died in exile in Northern Catalonia
90
years ago
1934-02-12
Struggles between Socialists and Fascists begin, also known as the Civil War of Austria
100
years ago
1924-02-19
Amale Arcelus is born in Donostia, the first woman in Basque on the radio
105
years ago
1919-02-05
The Canadenca de Barcelona starts a strike for eight hours
110
years ago
1914-02-20
Born the writer Julia de Burgos
115
years ago
1909-02-17
At 80, the head of the apaches named Gerónimo died.
150
years ago
1874-02-21
Bilbao's siege begins in the civil war known as the Second Carlist War
210
years ago
1814-02-26
The City Hall banned the organization of dances, tamboriles and more on carnivals
230
years ago
1794-02-19
47 young people from Itsasu deserted from the French army fleeing the Baztan
245
years ago
1779-02-14
Hawaiians killed colonizer James Cook
375
years ago
1649-02-07
They decided to abolish the monarchy in England and cut King Charles I's head, accusing him of violating citizens' rights and freedoms.
415
years ago
1609-02-13
The Inquisition questioned six citizens of Zugarramurdi in Logroño
500
years ago
1524-02-27
In Hondarribia there were only fighters for Navarre, with the city besieged by the Spaniards.