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Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime

50
years ago

23 March 1974,

Operators of the Scottish Rolls Royce plant in East Killbride refused to repair the Pinochet aircraft engine. It was the only workshop that repaired these motors and kept the boycott for four years until the motors disappeared from the factory.

On this day
1980Oscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador, launched the sermon of fire
1842The priest and guerrilla Santa Cruz was born in Elduain
1944Italian anti-fascist partisans attack Nazis in Rome
1984The GAL shot dead Mondragonese refugee Xabier Pérez de Arenaza Sogorb in Biarritz

This year in history: < >
From newest From oldest

1974-01-25
Eli Gallastegi, passionate pro-independence politician, dies Gudari in San Juan de Luz
1974-03-02
Salvador Puig Antich was executed by the Franco regime
1974-03-23
Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime
1974-04-03
ETA killed torturing civilian guard Gregorio Posada in Azpeitia
1974-04-25
The leftist military launched the Carnation Revolution in Portugal against the dictatorship
1974-05-12
The Tximist expedition was 320 meters from the Everest Summit
1974-05-20
Roke Mendez and Joxe Luis Mondragon, members of ETA, were gunned down in the Hondarribia moat
1974-06-15
Kevin Gately, a 20-year-old student killed in England by a horseback policeman with a blurry blow
1974-07-06
A command released ETA member Jon Urzelai, who was detained at Donostia hospital
1974-08-28
Francoist police threw members of ETA Tupa and Tanke in San Sebastian
1974-09-08
The neighbors of the Roman district of San Basilio rose up
1974-09-11
Jon Urzelai was killed in Bilbao by the Civil Guard
1974-09-13
ETA shot a bomb at the Rolando cafeteria in Madrid and killed many civilians
1974-09-23
Spanish police arrested Eva Forest in Madrid
1974-10-09
Oskar Schindler dies in Sweden
1974-10-29
Etarra Iñaki Iparragirre and civil guard Jerónimo Vera died in a shooting in Pasaia
1974-11-13
Karen Silkwood, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union trade unionist, dies in a suspicious accident
1974-11-24
In Ethiopia, the Lucy skeleton, a fingerprint of human ancestors over 3 million years old, was discovered.
1974-12-11
The largest general strike of Franco took place in Hego Euskal Herria
1974-12-17
ETA murdered two civil guards, one of them, the famous torturer
1974-12-18
Civil Guard murdered young man Mikel Salegi Urbieta in roadside control in San Sebastian
1974-12-22
100 people reported unemployment and Christmas consumerism in Copenhagen
1974-12-23
One hundred Santa Claus reported Christmas marketing in Copenhagen and were arrested

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

5
years ago
2019-03-15
The Fridays for future climate movement celebrated its first international strike
20
years ago
2004-03-13
Baker Angel Berrueta was killed in Pamplona by a Spanish police and his son
20
years ago
2004-03-11
Al Qaeda in Madrid
25
years ago
1999-03-24
NATO launches bombing of Yugoslavia
25
years ago
1999-03-20
The body of Joxelu Geresta Mugika Ttotto, member of ETA, was found under an apple from a Errenteria farmhouse
35
years ago
1989-03-26
A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun
35
years ago
1989-03-24
Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska
35
years ago
1989-03-16
A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL
40
years ago
1984-03-23
The GAL shot dead Mondragonese refugee Xabier Pérez de Arenaza Sogorb in Biarritz
40
years ago
1984-03-22
Segmented against five members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commands at Pasai Donibane
40
years ago
1984-03-06
Start a historic strike by miners in the UK against Tatcher
40
years ago
1984-03-01
Didier Lafitte, a member of the American team, was killed by French police in Baiona
45
years ago
1979-03-28
Three Miles Island nuclear accident occurred in the United States
45
years ago
1979-03-03
23 Basque prisoners in Soria prison cut their veins
50
years ago
1974-03-23
Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime
50
years ago
1974-03-02
Salvador Puig Antich was executed by the Franco regime
60
years ago
1964-03-30
Gernika celebrated the Aberri Eguna, the first held in the South since 1936
65
years ago
1959-03-10
300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama palace to prevent the Chinese army from stopping it
70
years ago
1954-03-09
Bobby Sands is born in a Catholic family in Belfast
70
years ago
1954-03-01
U.S. nuclear test caught 23 Japanese sailors on Bikini Atoll
75
years ago
1949-03-30
Following the protest against Iceland's entry into NATO in Reykjavik
75
years ago
1949-03-07
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana Argala was born in Arrigorriaga
80
years ago
1944-03-27
US aircraft bombed Anglet and Biarritz
80
years ago
1944-03-25
76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III
80
years ago
1944-03-23
Italian anti-fascist partisans attack Nazis in Rome
85
years ago
1939-03-28
Francoists turned the fronton Euskal Jai of Pamplona into prison
85
years ago
1939-03-16
Prohibition of writing in Basque in Hego Euskal Herria
105
years ago
1919-03-04
Kinmel Park Matxinada begins in the Welsh town of Abergele
120
years ago
1904-03-06
José Antonio Agirre, first president of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, was born
125
years ago
1899-03-06
The pharmaceutical company Bayern recorded aspirin
145
years ago
1879-03-14
Albert Einstein is born, one of the most important scientists in history.
155
years ago
1869-03-24
In New Zealand the lifting of majorities against the British ends
165
years ago
1859-03-19
Josefa Ignacia Albisu Aranburu Joxpinaxi was born in Lazkao
180
years ago
1844-03-10
Born the Madrid musician Pablo Sarasate
190
years ago
1834-03-29
The Zumalacárregui army defeated the liberal troops between Abárzuza and Muro in Navarre
230
years ago
1794-03-13
Two young seafarers were murdered with guillotine for helping those wishing to leave the French Army
230
years ago
1794-03-03
Paris ordered the deportation of robbers
570
years ago
1454-03-09
An Italian explorer was born that would call the American continent: America Vespucio