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wednesday 20 november 2024

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The workers of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria' published the journal 'Everyday', demonstrating that they would not silence them.

21

years ago

21 February 2003,

The workers of Euskaldunon Egunkaria published the Egunean newspaper, demonstrating that they would not silence them. On the eve of the Spanish Civil Guard, the newspaper closed down and detained ten people. Over 50,000 daily copies were published, more than three times as usual, and all were sold.

2002UNESCO publishes endangered Basque

1916 The Battle of Verdun begins, I. The longest of World War and one of the hardest in history

1874Bilbao's siege begins in the civil war known as the Second Carlist War

1965Malcolm X was shot dead in New York

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2003-01-12

A failure at the Garoña nuclear power plant forced the reactor to stop while working at all power stations.

2003-01-18

24 Navarros mayors announced that they would not comply with the Symbols Act and the Basque Foral Decree.

2003-02-06

Nigerian Stella Obasanjo made official statement against female genital mutilation

2003-02-15

25 million took to the streets in over 100 countries against the invasion of Iraq

2003-02-20

The Spanish Civil Guard forcibly closed the 'Diario Vasco'

2003-02-21

The workers of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria' published the journal 'Everyday', demonstrating that they would not silence them.

2003-02-22

One of Donostia's biggest protests to denounce the closure of the 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'

2003-03-19

Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad, even though the US announced a war against Iraq

2003-03-20

U.S. and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq

2003-04-05

Seven activists enter the Bardenas shooting camp protesting the Iraq War

2003-04-29

Judge Baltasar Garzón arrested eight members of Udalbiltza and ordered the closure of his headquarters

2003-05-03

Illegalization of 241 popular platforms in Hego Euskal Herria

2003-06-21

The first issue of the journal Berria was published

2003-06-22

José Bové was arrested and taken by helicopter to jail

2003-06-30

UNESCO declared that half of the world ' s languages will disappear at the end of the twenty-first century

2003-07-23

Miguel Sanz, president of Navarra, pointed out that the classes teaching the history of the Basque Country had to be punished.

2003-08-02

Extreme heat wave hits Euskal Herria

2003-08-11

Dozens of young people first approached San Sebastian

2003-09-10

Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting

2003-09-30

The excavators demolished the town of Artozki, amid the resistance of the solidary

2003-10-09

Greenpeace action at the Garoña nuclear power plant requesting its closure

2003-11-08

Demos organised a mus championship on the Baiona tracks

2003-11-29

Death of Sara Fernandez, from Malaga, when he visited a Basque prisoner

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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.