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Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti dies in Madrid

88

years ago

20 November 1936,

Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti dies in Madrid. The day before a shot in defense of the city was seriously wounded. It was one of the charismatic figures of Catalan and Spanish anarchism. He led, among others, the Durruti column, which started Zaragoza at the beginning of the 36th War. His funeral is the most massive funeral in the history of Barcelona and 500,000 people gathered at his farewell. See images.

Source:

Abel Paz, Durruti in the Spanish revolution. (The Book Sphere)

1975They reported the death of dictator Franco

1983Spanish police attacked in Bilbao the peaceful demonstration against NATO

1984Santi Brouard was killed by GAL in Bilbao

1989HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress

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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

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