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Start of the trial against Angela Davis in the US

52
years ago

28 February 1972,

Start of the trial against Angela Davis in the US. For his revolutionary militancy, he was falsely charged with murder and kidnapping and sentenced to death. It received significant international support and the conviction was annulled. He was a member of the Communist Party and also related to the Black Panther.

Source:

Angela Davis, Autobiography.

On this day
1981100,000 people met to call for a nuclear plant to be shut down in Bonn, Germany
1948The Accra riots begin in today's Ghana, in the British colony Gold Coast
1936Canada withdrew charges against the leaders of displaced workers to Ottawa
1933Hitler outlaws the Communist Party of Germany

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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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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.