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Harriet Tubman dies, anti-desclavian icon

111

years ago

09 March 1913,

Harriet Tubman, African-American freedom fighter dies. He was born in a family of slaves, but risking his life he managed to escape. To help escape other slaves, the Underground Railroad was part of the clandestine network and helped some 70 escapes escape from that suffering. It became an anti-slavery icon.

1454An Italian explorer was born that would call the American continent: America Vespucio

1916Pancho Villa attacked the United States

1954Bobby Sands is born in a Catholic family in Belfast

2021Journalist Pepe Rei dies

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From newest From oldest

1913-01-07

Start a strike in Peru for the eight-hour day

1913-01-23

Over 10,000 garment workers started a strike in New York, mostly women

1913-02-01

The first issue of the journal Euzkadi was published

1913-02-25

24,000 workers from the Paterson silk workshop started a strike in the United States for eight hours

1913-03-09

Harriet Tubman dies, anti-desclavian icon

1913-06-04

In England, suffragist activist Emily Wilding Davison took a spectacular action.

1913-06-08

Supporting activist Emily Wilding Davison dies in England after capturing the King's horses in the horse race

1913-07-30

22,000 workers from the plant 'La Constancia' in Barcelona, mostly women and children, started a strike against low wages and long hours

1913-09-23

In Argentina, sexual exploitation and trade in human beings were prohibited.

1913-10-10

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson opened the Panama Canal detonating the latest dynamite load

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