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Extreme heat wave hits Euskal Herria

21

years ago

02 August 2003,

The extreme heat wave hit Euskal Herria. It lasted until 14 August and in some villages temperatures did not fall by 35 degrees. From July onwards, Western Europe was completely caught by the blown hot air from Africa, especially France. In Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Italy more than 30,000 people died of heat. In Euskal Herria there are no data of deaths.

Source:

Wikipedia – European heat wave 2003.

1968 ETA killed Meliton Manzanas in Irun, famous torturator

1985With peaks and mazas, the neighbors of San Ignacio de Bilbao broke the monument to the Blue Division to end the festivities

1980At Bologna train station, with a bomb, he killed 85 people on the right and blamed the left.

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2003-01-12

A failure at the Garoña nuclear power plant forced the reactor to stop while working at all power stations.

2003-01-18

24 Navarros mayors announced that they would not comply with the Symbols Act and the Basque Foral Decree.

2003-02-06

Nigerian Stella Obasanjo made official statement against female genital mutilation

2003-02-15

25 million took to the streets in over 100 countries against the invasion of Iraq

2003-02-20

The Spanish Civil Guard forcibly closed the 'Diario Vasco'

2003-02-21

The workers of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria' published the journal 'Everyday', demonstrating that they would not silence them.

2003-02-22

One of Donostia's biggest protests to denounce the closure of the 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'

2003-03-19

Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad, even though the US announced a war against Iraq

2003-03-20

U.S. and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq

2003-04-05

Seven activists enter the Bardenas shooting camp protesting the Iraq War

2003-04-29

Judge Baltasar Garzón arrested eight members of Udalbiltza and ordered the closure of his headquarters

2003-05-03

Illegalization of 241 popular platforms in Hego Euskal Herria

2003-06-21

The first issue of the journal Berria was published

2003-06-22

José Bové was arrested and taken by helicopter to jail

2003-06-30

UNESCO declared that half of the world ' s languages will disappear at the end of the twenty-first century

2003-07-23

Miguel Sanz, president of Navarra, pointed out that the classes teaching the history of the Basque Country had to be punished.

2003-08-02

Extreme heat wave hits Euskal Herria

2003-08-11

Dozens of young people first approached San Sebastian

2003-09-10

Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting

2003-09-30

The excavators demolished the town of Artozki, amid the resistance of the solidary

2003-10-09

Greenpeace action at the Garoña nuclear power plant requesting its closure

2003-11-08

Demos organised a mus championship on the Baiona tracks

2003-11-29

Death of Sara Fernandez, from Malaga, when he visited a Basque prisoner

This month's anniversaries:
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10

years ago

2014-08-09

Police killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, and great riots broke out across the United States.

25

years ago

1999-08-26

The second war in Chechnya began when Russia began the invasion of the country

25

years ago

1999-08-20

Action disguised as 'Giraldilla' at the opening of the World Athletics Championship

25

years ago

1999-08-12

Farmers dismantled the McDonald’s building in Millaun, France

30

years ago

1994-08-24

Carlos Bue Judge Imprisoned Journalist Pepe Rei

30

years ago

1994-08-24

The Filter massacre in Uruguay, two people killed by the police in the demonstration against the extradition of Basque refugees

30

years ago

1994-08-05

Two injunctions on arrest warrant planted at the headquarters of the Military Government of Bilbao

35

years ago

1989-08-23

Two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain of 675 kilometres for the independence of their peoples

40

years ago

1984-08-11

CCOO calls on Telefónica workers not to help police paint phones in Gipuzkoa

45

years ago

1979-08-30

American actor Jean Seberg, a follower of the Black Panthers, committed suicide

50

years ago

1974-08-28

Francoist police threw members of ETA Tupa and Tanke in San Sebastian

55

years ago

1969-08-17

The giant Woodstock music festival ends in New York State

55

years ago

1969-08-03

Felix Arnaiz Maeso was shot dead by a Spanish policeman in Rome

60

years ago

1964-08-31

Four people were fined in Sestao for playing txistu as an instrument

60

years ago

1964-08-11

Attempted attack on dictator Franco

60

years ago

1964-08-07

U.S. Congress approved the use of the army against North Vietnam

65

years ago

1959-08-25

Miles Davis is beaten by police in New York

75

years ago

1949-08-25

They finally managed to extinguish the fire in the Landeta forest

75

years ago

1949-08-19

A giant fire took place in Landeta

80

years ago

1944-08-24

Anti-fascist soldiers liberated the city of Paris occupied by the Nazis

80

years ago

1944-08-22

30 Spanish machines, with four members of the French resistance, defeated the column of the Nazi army, composed of 1,300 men

80

years ago

1944-08-22

Revolutionary trade unionist Maria Oneker killed by the Nazis in Warsaw in an uprising against occupation

80

years ago

1944-08-14

Italian fascists killed the Irma Partisan Flag

80

years ago

1944-08-10

Resistance member Daniel Argote was arrested and executed by the Nazis in Orthol

85

years ago

1939-08-18

Hitler's government launched a program to kill newborns with severe disabilities

90

years ago

1934-08-07

Irun postpologists, all women, went on strike and occupied the workshop

100

years ago

1924-08-23

Born Madeleine Riffaud in Arvillers, France

120

years ago

1904-08-18

Born Maria Magunazelaia Loroño, first cyclist in the Basque Country

120

years ago

1904-08-14

Bastilla Square in Paris became a battlefield between Apache groups and police

135

years ago

1889-08-14

The dockers of the London ports started a major strike

150

years ago

1874-08-27

Carlists took positions to siege Pamplona in the Second Carlist War

185

years ago

1839-08-31

Bergara's hug between Carlists and liberals, another betrayal for Basques

220

years ago

1804-08-18

Abando's neighbors joined the Begoña in the riot called Zamakolada

220

years ago

1804-08-16

Popular uprising known as Zamakolada begins in and around Bilbao

230

years ago

1794-08-29

French army burns Eibar and kills twelve citizens

230

years ago

1794-08-14

The General Meetings of Gipuzkoa propose the creation of an independent Republic of Gipuzkoa

230

years ago

1794-08-01

The mayor of San Sebastian, Mitxelena, contacted the French troops surrounding the city to negotiate surrender

235

years ago

1789-08-04

France destroys the outbreaks of the continental Basque Country Louis XVI