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Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska

36
years ago

24 March 1989,

Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. The oil tanker Exxon Valdez sank into a reef and released 40.9 million liters of hydrocarbons into the sea, expanding 2,000 kilometers offshore.

Although they continue to investigate the long-term ecological damage, the accident resulted in the short-term death of some 250,000 seabirds, among many others.

 

On this day
1869In New Zealand the lifting of majorities against the British ends
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1976Estatu kolpea jo zuten militarrek Argentinan, AEBen laguntzarekin
1999NATO launches bombing of Yugoslavia
2023The policy of dispersion against Basque political prisoners in the Spanish State ends

This year in history: < >
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1989-01-22
ETA and the Government of Spain set up the negotiating table for Algiers
1989-02-14
Iranian imam Khomeini ordered the writer Salman Rushdie to be murdered for his novel 'Satanic verses'
1989-03-16
A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL
1989-03-24
Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska
1989-03-26
A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun
1989-04-18
A group of conscientious objectors interrupted the passage of a military convoy in Vitoria
1989-04-21
Game Boy kontsola merkaturatu zuen Nintendok Japonian
1989-05-12
They sent the Attorney General of Spain the "Navajas Report" on the Civil Guard's relationship with EH's heroin.
1989-06-05
A man stood before a bunch of tanks in Beijin, China.
1989-07-05
Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case
1989-08-23
Two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain of 675 kilometres for the independence of their peoples
1989-09-05
Government banned the issuance of TV3 in Valencian Country
1989-10-18
The Leitzaran Highway Coordinator started an indefinite camp
1989-10-19
“Guildford-eko laurak” aske utzi zituzten Londresen
1989-10-19
Fire at the Vandellòs I nuclear power plant in Tarragona
1989-11-02
Nun Dianna Ortiz, who worked with indigenous people, was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan military
1989-11-12
Dolores Ibarruri Pasionaria hil zen, lider komunista bizkaitarra
1989-11-20
HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress
1989-12-20
US invades Panama
1989-12-30
In the march of the Herrera de la Mancha, 12,000 people met in Madrid

This month's anniversaries:
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15
years ago
2010-03-12
In Texas, they agreed to suppress the word capitalism from school books, understanding it had a negative meaning.
20
years ago
2005-03-15
Euskal Preso Politikoen Kolektiboko presoek gose greba mugagabea hasi zuten
20
years ago
2005-03-10
Bruno Manser ekintzaile ekologista suitzarra hiltzat jo zuten
25
years ago
2000-03-14
Euskal ordezkari instituzionalei zegozkien 21 eserlekuak ebatsi zituzten demoek Paueko Kontseilu Nagusitik
25
years ago
2000-03-14
Basque representatives stole 21 seats from the Pau General Council
25
years ago
2000-03-08
Emakumeen Mundu Martxa abiatu zen lehen aldiz, Genevatik eta Quebecetik aldi berean
30
years ago
1995-03-17
Lasa eta Zabalaren gorpuak identifikatu zituen Paco Etxeberria forentseak, desagertu eta 12 urtera
35
years ago
1990-03-11
Pinocheten Txileko diktadura militarra amaitu zen
35
years ago
1990-03-04
Lehen aldiz antolatu zuten Lilatoia Donostian, emakumeen lasterketa
40
years ago
1985-03-30
GALek Xabier Galdeano hil zuen Donibane Lohizunen
40
years ago
1985-03-26
Police evicted South London Women's Hospital who were busy facing closure
40
years ago
1985-03-03
Erresuma Batuko meatzarien greba historikoa amaitu zen, langileen porrotarekin
45
years ago
1980-03-26
Txomin Olhagarai and Ramuntxo Arruiz Iparretarras members died of explosives in preparation
45
years ago
1980-03-23
Oscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador, launched the sermon of fire
45
years ago
1980-03-15
Books persecuted by Spanish censorship were put on sale in San Sebastian Street
50
years ago
1975-03-29
José Díaz Linares polizia torturatzailea hil zuen ETA pm-k Donostian
50
years ago
1975-03-21
Alfredo Valcarcel hil zen Espainiako Poliziaren torturen ondorioz
50
years ago
1975-03-06
Gerra kontseilua egin zuten Logroñon, hamabost euskal herritarren aurka
60
years ago
1965-03-28
Euskaraz abesteagatik atxilotu zituen Guardia Zibilak gazte ondarrutar batzuk
60
years ago
1965-03-13
Radio Nacional de Españak emisioa eten behar izan zuen, Donostian sabotaje ekintza baten ondorioz
65
years ago
1960-03-22
Jose Antonio Agirre lehendakaria hil zen erbestean, Parisen
65
years ago
1960-03-21
The apartheid regime led to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa
65
years ago
1960-03-10
She arrived in Australia from Euskal Herria and from the Spanish State the first woman plane sent by Franco
65
years ago
1960-03-05
Alberto Córdoba made an iconic photograph of Ernesto Che Guevara
70
years ago
1955-03-02
15 urteko Claudette Colvin atxilotu zuten Montgomeryko autobus batean emakume zuri bati eserlekua ez uzteagatik
95
years ago
1930-03-12
Salt March in India, led by Mahatma Gandhi
120
years ago
1905-03-22
Trial ends against a group of Paris apaches in Amiens city
125
years ago
1900-03-20
Iturengo eskolan euskara debekatu zieten haur eta irakasleei
150
years ago
1875-03-07
Maurice Ravel konpositorea jaio zen Ziburun
165
years ago
1860-03-17
Majorities rose in New Zealand to fight British attacks
165
years ago
1860-03-07
A thousand striker women organized the Great Female Procession on the Lynn North American city shoe strike
235
years ago
1790-03-04
Lapurdi, Baja Navarra and Zuberoa stayed within the Pyrenees Atlantiques department, along with Biarno
275
years ago
1750-03-01
A group of protesting women in Urruña was shot by the French army
485
years ago
1540-03-16
The Inquisition publicly tried in Pamplona 69 ochagaves accusing them of “witchcraft”
575
years ago
1450-03-18
Lapurdi stopped relying on England