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German West Police shot dead young Petra Schelm in Hamburg

53
years ago

15 July 1971,

The young Petra Schelm was shot by the West German Police in Hamburg. The Red Army Fraction led by Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader was the first victim of the armed group. His arrest was murdered during a shooting by the police.

On this day
1522The armies of Castile and Aragon begin the siege to the castle of Amaiur
1893Published the first issue of the journal Eskual Herria de California, was the first journal in Basque entirely
1998Spanish police closed the newspaper Egin and radio by order of Judge Baltasar Garzón

This year in history: < >
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1971-02-05
Iñaki Viar Etxeberria was declared innocent by the judge in grave disobedience to the president of the TOP for having been declared only in Basque a year earlier
1971-02-05
Suspending the exceptional situation of the Franco regime for Gipuzkoa
1971-04-05
343 women publicly manifested their abortion on the initiative of Simone de Beauvoir
1971-04-23
Vietnamese war veterans returned war medals to the US government
1971-05-27
800 students from London went on strike to demand the return of a dismissed teacher
1971-06-17
Construction workers refused to build luxury homes in southern Australia
1971-07-15
German West Police shot dead young Petra Schelm in Hamburg
1971-08-09
Ballymurphy massacre: British army killed eleven people in Belfast
1971-09-09
Attica begins a prison revolt in the United States when 1,300 prisoners abduct guards
1971-09-15
Greenpeace is born in Vancouver, Canada
1971-10-13
The British army destroyed secondary roads linking Northern and Southern Ireland
1971-11-05
An extreme right band destroyed several works by Picasso in Madrid

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