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London police shot dead Brazilian youth Jean Charles de Menezes by subway

19
years ago

22 July 2005,

In London, police killed Jean Charles de Menezes, a young Brazilian shot by the subway. He had seven shots in his head and one in his chest. The only argument of the police was that it looked like a suspected terrorist and no one had to answer for the murder.

On this day
1936Francoist aircraft seized and bombed Otxandio during the Santamaña celebration
1944The establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
1999Woodstock festival begins in New York, which would be a disaster

This year in history: < >
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2005-01-15
Creation of the Basque Country Chamber of Agriculture in Ainhize-Monjolos
2005-01-20
Giant human chains surrounded Coca-Cola and Pepsi factories in India
2005-02-12
160 French and Spanish identity documents were delivered in Brussels
2005-02-16
Signing of the Kyoto protocol to prevent climate change
2005-07-22
London police shot dead Brazilian youth Jean Charles de Menezes by subway
2005-08-22
Israel leaves Gaza after 38 years of occupation
2005-09-04
New Orleans police killed two armed African-Americans
2005-10-27
In Paris, incidents in slums begin due to the deaths of two young people fleeing police
2005-11-04
Nadia Anjuman, 25-year-old Afghan writer, killed by her husband

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-07-02
Israeli settlers kidnapped Mohammed Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem
20
years ago
2004-07-25
800 people destroyed a GM corn farm in Menville, France
20
years ago
2004-07-08
The body of Basque prisoner Oihane Errazkin was found in prison
25
years ago
1999-07-22
Woodstock festival begins in New York, which would be a disaster
30
years ago
1994-07-27
Photojournalist Kevin Carter committed suicide in South Africa
30
years ago
1994-07-14
The musical group Parabellum offered a concert in Barakaldo's court at the same time as Lino Prieto's unmissable trial
35
years ago
1989-07-05
Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case
45
years ago
1979-07-27
Marielle Franco is born, Afro-Brazilian feminist and socialist activist
45
years ago
1979-07-20
Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier fled jail with two other colleagues in the United States
45
years ago
1979-07-19
FSLN guerrillas entered the Nicaraguan capital of Managua and ended the Somoza dictatorship
50
years ago
1974-07-06
A command released ETA member Jon Urzelai, who was detained at Donostia hospital
55
years ago
1969-07-20
American spaceship Apollo 11 reaches the moon
70
years ago
1954-07-13
Frida Kahlo dies in Mexico City
80
years ago
1944-07-27
Florentino Goikoetxea, border of the Comète Network, was released from Nazi hands by resistance members at the hospital in Baiona
80
years ago
1944-07-22
The establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
80
years ago
1944-07-20
German officer Klaus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler
80
years ago
1944-07-03
Red Army enters the ghetto of Minsk
90
years ago
1934-07-05
San Francisco police killed two workers in the United States
110
years ago
1914-07-28
I. World War breaks, when disputes between European empires reached their peak
115
years ago
1909-07-31
The Barcelona riots ended, the last days of the 'Tragic Week'
130
years ago
1894-07-14
Exhibition of the first ikurrina on the balcony of the Bilbao Batzokija
185
years ago
1839-07-02
53 Africans were raised aboard the boat 'La Amistad' for the sale of slaves in Cuba
230
years ago
1794-07-27
Deported robbers agreed to return home
230
years ago
1794-07-24
Napoleonic troops won the battle of Baztan and entered Hego Euskal Herria during the Convention War
235
years ago
1789-07-01
The Navarro guerrilla Xabier Mina was born in Otao
415
years ago
1609-07-02
Inquisitor Pierre de Lancre starts witch hunting in Lapurdi