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France conducted its first nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara

64

years ago

13 February 1960,

France conducted the first nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara. The trial was named Gerboise Bleue and resulted in a bomb exploding four times more potent than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb on the territory of its colony. They did not consider that people lived around, especially the people of the Tuaregs. Neither the French Government, nor that of Algeria after independence, cleaned up the area and radiation has caused great damage to this nomad population.

Source:

Jacques Mandelbaum (Le Monde, 10 February 2009).

1565Conqueror Miguel López de Legazpi arrived in the Philippines and declared "discover" the islands

1981Joxe Arrangi dies from Carabanchel's torture

1917Arrest of spy Mata Hari in Paris

1609The Inquisition questioned six citizens of Zugarramurdi in Logroño

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1960-01-05

Anti-Francoist Maqui guerrilla Quico Sabaté was killed by the Civil Guard

1960-02-01

Four African-American students sat in a cafeteria where blacks were banned from entering the United States.

1960-02-13

France conducted its first nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara

1960-03-05

Alberto Córdoba made an iconic photograph of Ernesto Che Guevara

1960-03-10

She arrived in Australia from Euskal Herria and from the Spanish State the first woman plane sent by Franco

1960-03-21

The apartheid regime led to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa

1960-05-20

Giant demonstration in Japan against the placement of US troops on the island

1960-06-15

Police killed 22-year-old Kanba in Tokyo

1960-06-26

Madagascar proclaims its independence with France

1960-08-21

Ernest Hemingway authorized José Artetxe to translate to Basque the novel Agurea eta itsasoa

1960-09-14

U.S.-led coup d'état against Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo

1960-09-27

Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist activist dies

1960-11-03

Cameroon's anti-colonial leader was poisoned to death in Geneva: Felix-Roland Moumié

1960-11-25

In Santo Domingo died the sisters Minerva, María Teresa and Patricia Mirabal, activists against dictator Trujillo

1960-12-18

Victoria Eugenia from Donostia hosted the first post-war Bertsolaris National Championship

1960-12-30

Mexican army assaults student movement and kills 20 in Chilpancingo

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

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.