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Spanish secret services killed 'Argala' with explosives in Angelu, one of ETA's historic bosses

46
years ago

21 December 1978,

José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana Argala was killed by Spanish Basque Battallon in an attack in Ángel with a bomb placed under the car. He was a charismatic leader of ETA and made many theoretical contributions. For example, he is given the phrase “We all have to give something so that a few don’t have to give everything.” His death caused great excitement in Basque society, with many demonstrations and tributes.

BVE is one of the denominations that the Spanish secret services used for the dirty war between 1975 and 1982, made up of extreme right-wing members. These groups killed at least 70 people in the Basque Country during this period.

On this day
1949Thomas Sankara is born in Burkina Faso
1973A young Spanish man is shot by the police in Madrid as the author of the Carrero Blanco attack
2002Several activists, dressed in Olentzero and Barbero, climbed to the La Santé prison wall in Paris

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1978-01-15
In Barcelona the Scala room was set on fire by a police confidant and led to an operation against anarchists
1978-01-19
They abolished the penalty of adultery in Hego Euskal Herria
1978-02-26
Four days before Tokyo Narita International Airport opens its doors in Japan, major protests
1978-03-19
5,000 workers of the company Babcock & Wilcox of Sestao occupied the plant
1978-03-26
The Basque Country Peninsular celebrated the first Aberri Eguna after Franco
1978-04-01
The Neighbourhood Associations of Gabrirota and Orereta called for “kidnapping” and demonstrated with seven public buses
1978-05-20
15,000 people tried to block Narita airport on the day it opened in Japan
1978-05-25
In New Zealand the police evicted the majorities occupying the lands of Bastion Point
1978-05-26
Adultery ceased to be a crime in Spain
1978-06-06
Hundreds of Firestone strike workers in Bilbao blocked the Bilbao bank
1978-06-25
The rainbow flag was first used as a symbol of the LGTB collective
1978-07-08
German Rodríguez is killed by the Spanish Police in the Sanfermines of Pamplona
1978-07-11
Spanish police killed Joseba Barandiaran in San Sebastian
1978-07-13
200 Spanish policemen assaulted Errenteria assaulting people, shooting windows and stealing in shops
1978-11-27
They formed the Kurdistan Workers' Party: CPC
1978-12-06
Hego Euskal Herria rejected the Spanish Constitution
1978-12-21
Spanish secret services killed 'Argala' with explosives in Angelu, one of ETA's historic bosses

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15
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2009-12-28
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15
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2009-12-13
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20
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2004-12-31
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20
years ago
2004-12-26
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20
years ago
2004-12-10
US journalist Gary Webb committed suicide
25
years ago
1999-12-23
Olentzero hung on the wall of Algeciras prison to free local prisoners
25
years ago
1999-12-12
30,000 tons of fuel were dumped by the oil tanker Erika on the Breton coast
30
years ago
1994-12-14
Thousands of people requested the Euskaldunization of the UPV/EHU in Vitoria-Gasteiz
35
years ago
1989-12-30
In the march of the Herrera de la Mancha, 12,000 people met in Madrid
35
years ago
1989-12-20
US invades Panama
40
years ago
1984-12-10
The Gay and Lesbian Mining Protection Association organized a festival in Britain to support the mining strike economically
40
years ago
1984-12-09
Manoli Arza Sueskun was seriously injured in Pamplona by the GAL
40
years ago
1984-12-03
At the Bhopal chemical plant, the early morning was one of the most serious accidents in the world, in India.
40
years ago
1984-12-02
In India, Bhopal chemical plant, the night of one of the most serious accidents in the world.
45
years ago
1979-12-15
Jesús Mari Leizaola, president of the Exile Government, returned to Euskal Herria
45
years ago
1979-12-13
The Basque prisoner was released from prison by Amnesty's decree: Fran Aldasoro
50
years ago
1974-12-23
One hundred Santa Claus reported Christmas marketing in Copenhagen and were arrested
50
years ago
1974-12-22
100 people reported unemployment and Christmas consumerism in Copenhagen
50
years ago
1974-12-18
Civil Guard murdered young man Mikel Salegi Urbieta in roadside control in San Sebastian
50
years ago
1974-12-17
ETA murdered two civil guards, one of them, the famous torturer
50
years ago
1974-12-11
The largest general strike of Franco took place in Hego Euskal Herria
55
years ago
1969-12-04
FBI killed Fred Hampton, one of the leaders of the Black Panthers
60
years ago
1964-12-24
Vietnam National Liberation Front attacked hotel Brinks
60
years ago
1964-12-02
Police arrested 800 people in the United States protesting solidarity with those convicted of distributing political literature
75
years ago
1949-12-21
Thomas Sankara is born in Burkina Faso
75
years ago
1949-12-03
The first edition of Euskera International Day was held at the initiative of Eusko Ikaskuntza
80
years ago
1944-12-10
Nine machines were killed in Catalonia by former civil guards and Francoist soldiers
80
years ago
1944-12-01
The French carried out the massacre in Senegal by France II. Fighting soldiers in MG
85
years ago
1939-12-29
Feminist psychiatrist and activist Madeleine Pelletier dies
90
years ago
1934-12-27
Mari Cruz Guruzeta dies, a midwife born in Aramaio and founder of Areatza Emakume Abertzale Batza
100
years ago
1924-12-06
Entering Bera, anarchists were executed in Pamplona seeking to rise up against Primo de Rivera
110
years ago
1914-12-25
I. British and German MG front soldiers made a spontaneous truce to celebrate Christmas together
135
years ago
1889-12-19
The Basque Country Nemesio Etxaniz Aranbarri was born in Azkoitia
165
years ago
1859-12-25
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