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ETA tried to do its first major task: to get off the road a train carrying former Francoist soldiers

63

years ago

18 July 1961,

ETA tried its first major action: it tried to get off the road a train carrying former Francoist soldiers. They went to San Sebastian to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Franco's uprising. Near the city the railroad was damaged, but sabotage did not affect and the train reached its destination. Several Spanish flags were also publicly burned in San Sebastian. Police arrested 110 people in the coming days. They were severely tortured and 31 were imprisoned. Seven of them were tried at the War Council in November of the same year, with a request for the death penalty against some. They were sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Source:

Basque Country - Basque Country and Freedom, vol. I (Txalaparta).

1936When General Francisco Franco was one of the chiefs, part of the Spanish army hit a coup d'état.

1946Joseba Elosegi, together with some friends, put the ikurrina at the tip of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd of San Sebastián

1961Venezuelan Maria Mercedes Antxeta was arrested in San Sebastian by Francoists, being tortured by Meliton Manzanas

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1961-01-17

Patrice Lumumba was killed under the coup d'état sponsored by Belgium and the US, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo

1961-01-23

One aircraft accidentally released two nuclear bombs in North Carolina.

1961-03-27

Javier Batarrita Elexpuru is killed by the Spanish Civil Guard in the Bilbao Bolueta

1961-04-12

The Soviet Juri Gagarin came into space, the first man to achieve it.

1961-04-15

U.S. CIA Agency Makes Attempt to Invade Castro on Girón Beach in Cuba

1961-07-18

Venezuelan Maria Mercedes Antxeta was arrested in San Sebastian by Francoists, being tortured by Meliton Manzanas

1961-07-18

ETA tried to do its first major task: to get off the road a train carrying former Francoist soldiers

1961-10-17

French police killed over 200 Algerians in Paris during a peaceful demonstration

1961-10-27

On both sides of the Berlin Wall's 'Checkpoint Charlie' checkpoint, the Soviet and American tanks stood in front of each other.

1961-12-16

First action by the armed organization Umkhonto we Sizwe against Apartheid in South Africa

1961-12-22

Fidel Castro reveals that illiteracy was radicalized

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10

years ago

2014-07-02

Israeli settlers kidnapped Mohammed Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem

20

years ago

2004-07-25

800 people destroyed a GM corn farm in Menville, France

20

years ago

2004-07-08

The body of Basque prisoner Oihane Errazkin was found in prison

25

years ago

1999-07-22

Woodstock festival begins in New York, which would be a disaster

30

years ago

1994-07-27

Photojournalist Kevin Carter committed suicide in South Africa

30

years ago

1994-07-14

The musical group Parabellum offered a concert in Barakaldo's court at the same time as Lino Prieto's unmissable trial

35

years ago

1989-07-05

Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case

45

years ago

1979-07-27

Marielle Franco is born, Afro-Brazilian feminist and socialist activist

45

years ago

1979-07-20

Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier fled jail with two other colleagues in the United States

45

years ago

1979-07-19

FSLN guerrillas entered the Nicaraguan capital of Managua and ended the Somoza dictatorship

50

years ago

1974-07-06

A command released ETA member Jon Urzelai, who was detained at Donostia hospital

55

years ago

1969-07-20

American spaceship Apollo 11 reaches the moon

70

years ago

1954-07-13

Frida Kahlo dies in Mexico City

80

years ago

1944-07-27

Florentino Goikoetxea, border of the Comète Network, was released from Nazi hands by resistance members at the hospital in Baiona

80

years ago

1944-07-22

The establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

80

years ago

1944-07-20

German officer Klaus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler

80

years ago

1944-07-03

Red Army enters the ghetto of Minsk

90

years ago

1934-07-05

San Francisco police killed two workers in the United States

110

years ago

1914-07-28

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115

years ago

1909-07-31

The Barcelona riots ended, the last days of the 'Tragic Week'

130

years ago

1894-07-14

Exhibition of the first ikurrina on the balcony of the Bilbao Batzokija

185

years ago

1839-07-02

53 Africans were raised aboard the boat 'La Amistad' for the sale of slaves in Cuba

230

years ago

1794-07-27

Deported robbers agreed to return home

230

years ago

1794-07-24

Napoleonic troops won the battle of Baztan and entered Hego Euskal Herria during the Convention War

235

years ago

1789-07-01

The Navarro guerrilla Xabier Mina was born in Otao

415

years ago

1609-07-02

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