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Historia > Efemerideen kanala

Arrest of spy Mata Hari in Paris

107
years ago

13 February 1917,

The spy Mata Hari was arrested in Paris. Famous as an exotic dancer, his shows aroused great expectation. Consequently, he was treated with the higher spheres. For Germany, they accused him of working as a spy and betraying France, and so they executed him.

On this day
1565Conqueror Miguel López de Legazpi arrived in the Philippines and declared "discover" the islands
1960 France conducted its first nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara
1981Joxe Arrangi dies from Carabanchel's torture
1609The Inquisition questioned six citizens of Zugarramurdi in Logroño

This year in history: < >
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1917-01-10
The National Women's Party started pickets in Washington in front of the White House
1917-01-28
The altercations against the kerosene baths begin on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, when Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old Mexican girl, becomes a young Mexican
1917-02-13
Arrest of spy Mata Hari in Paris
1917-03-08
The general strike of a group of Petrograd workers triggered the February Revolution
1917-05-06
In the US, the League against Compulsory Military Recruitment was created. During the World War
1917-09-05
In the US 165 workers from the IWW, I trade union were arrested. Obstruction to World War Recruitment
1917-10-04
The Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra is born
1917-12-20
I. In the referendum on recruiting to fight the World War, the refusal in Australia was highlighted
1917-12-27
The Russian Bolshevik government, led by Lenin, nationalized all the banks of the country

This month's anniversaries:
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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.