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Thousands of people demonstrated in the Chinese city of Shifang against the opening of a chemical plant

12
years ago

01 July 2012,

Thousands of people demonstrated in the Chinese city of Shifang against the opening of a chemical plant. A workshop that would see residues that would be harmful both to the environment and to health. Police and government buildings were attacked for two days, until the authorities had to reject the plan.

On this day
1968Five people were arrested in Bermeo at the end of the Mass in memory of Txabi Etxebarrieta
1789 The Navarro guerrilla Xabier Mina was born in Otao
2015Euskaltel goes to Bolsa
1885King Leopoldo II of Belgium proclaimed that Congo was his personal colony

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2012-01-13
Former Hidalgo Civil Guard who tortured many Basques dies in Jaén
2012-01-14
The Ertzaintza arrested Ekaitz Samaniego in Vitoria
2012-04-09
The young Iñigo Cabacas dies because of the ball launched by the Ertzaintza four days earlier
2012-07-01
Thousands of people demonstrated in the Chinese city of Shifang against the opening of a chemical plant
2012-07-24
1,000 followers of the Andalusian trade union SAT occupied the Spanish military site ‘Las Turquilla’ for agriculture
2012-08-16
Police shot 34 miners at a demonstration in Marikana
2012-10-11
Australian Parliament asked for post-mortem forgiveness to athlete Peter Norman
2012-10-18
Greece held the 20th general strike called in two years
2012-10-20
John McConell, environmental and pacifist activist dies
2012-11-09
Baracaldesa Amaia Egaña committed suicide about to leave her home
2012-12-11
Teresa Spence, leader of the Canadian people of Attawapiskat, started a hunger strike with the Canadian Parliament

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10
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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
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