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Historia > Efemerideen kanala

Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison in South Africa

34
years ago

11 February 1990,

Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison in South Africa. Militant of Apartheid and the African National Congress. Previously, he promoted armed struggle as the leader of the organization Umkhonto we Sizwe. Leaving prison stimulated dialogue and reconciliation. He was elected president of South Africa and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but was on the US terrorist list until 2008.

To delve into who the mandela was, we propose this report.

On this day
1937The General Motors car factory in the US city of Flint ended the sit-down strike with workers' victory
1954In the Canary Islands, a concentration camp for the LGBTI group was opened.

This year in history: < >
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1990-02-11
Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison in South Africa
1990-02-15
The Basque Parliament proclaimed the right to self-determination
1990-04-01
Strangeways rebellion begins in the English city of Manchester
1990-04-26
Seven members of the Basque Country were arrested by the Spanish Police in Euskal Herria for erasing traffic signs in Spanish
1990-06-02
Cacagalia festival in Andoain, 375
1990-06-25
In Lumbier's foz, the Civil Guard executed two ethnic groups and another seriously wounded, according to major tests
1990-07-09
48 members of the Tupac Amaru movement fled jail in Peru
1990-08-08
Fire at the Garoña nuclear power plant
1990-09-11
Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack was killed after denouncing the government against indigenous people
1990-10-26
60 climbers started a 36 night and day camp on the wall of the Atxarte quarry hanging on a platform
1990-11-14
Incidents that would last for three days began in Berlin when 1,500 police officers were to evict thirteen occupied buildings.
1990-12-06
Published the first issue of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'
1990-12-24
Marta Gónzalez, Bilbaina Internationalist Doctor, was killed by El Salvador's army

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.