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The apartheid regime led to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa

64
years ago

21 March 1960,

The apartheid regime led to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. It was a peaceful demonstration against the laws that limited the mobility of black citizens, who moved outside the police station without passes that the government wanted to impose on them. But police shot and killed 69 people and injured 180. The news of the massacre was expanding protests in the country. That is why today is International Day against Racism.

On this day
1937U.S. police rebelled against independentists in Puerto Rico and killed 19 people
1982Kurdish journalist Mazlum Doechea burned his cell in Amed prison during Newroz's day
1982Women in the peaceful camp against the British military base of Greenham Common organized a music festival in danger of eviction
1992More than 100 Kurdish citizens were killed by the Turkish army in the city of Amed

This year in history: < >
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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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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