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Karen Silkwood, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union trade unionist, dies in a suspicious accident

50
years ago

13 November 1974,

Karen Silkwood, a trade unionist at the Chemical & Atomic Workers Union, died in a suspicious accident while carrying a journalist several documents. He worked in a nuclear fuel company and frequently reported irregularities. It had documents demonstrating the distortion of plant quality controls.

On this day
1980Spanish Basque Battalion Killed Hernaniarra Joaquín Antimasbere in Urnieta
1936700 Irish Brigade soldiers joined Francoists
1992The Dominican Lucrecia Pérez was shot by an extreme right group in Madrid
2002Start of the Prestige oil tanker disaster

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1974-01-25
Eli Gallastegi, passionate pro-independence politician, dies Gudari in San Juan de Luz
1974-03-02
Salvador Puig Antich was executed by the Franco regime
1974-03-23
Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime
1974-04-03
ETA killed torturing civilian guard Gregorio Posada in Azpeitia
1974-04-25
The leftist military launched the Carnation Revolution in Portugal against the dictatorship
1974-05-12
The Tximist expedition was 320 meters from the Everest Summit
1974-05-20
Roke Mendez and Joxe Luis Mondragon, members of ETA, were gunned down in the Hondarribia moat
1974-06-15
Kevin Gately, a 20-year-old student killed in England by a horseback policeman with a blurry blow
1974-07-06
A command released ETA member Jon Urzelai, who was detained at Donostia hospital
1974-08-28
Francoist police threw members of ETA Tupa and Tanke in San Sebastian
1974-09-08
The neighbors of the Roman district of San Basilio rose up
1974-09-11
Jon Urzelai was killed in Bilbao by the Civil Guard
1974-09-13
ETA shot a bomb at the Rolando cafeteria in Madrid and killed many civilians
1974-09-23
Spanish police arrested Eva Forest in Madrid
1974-10-09
Oskar Schindler dies in Sweden
1974-10-29
Etarra Iñaki Iparragirre and civil guard Jerónimo Vera died in a shooting in Pasaia
1974-11-13
Karen Silkwood, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union trade unionist, dies in a suspicious accident
1974-11-24
In Ethiopia, the Lucy skeleton, a fingerprint of human ancestors over 3 million years old, was discovered.
1974-12-11
The largest general strike of Franco took place in Hego Euskal Herria
1974-12-17
ETA murdered two civil guards, one of them, the famous torturer
1974-12-18
Civil Guard murdered young man Mikel Salegi Urbieta in roadside control in San Sebastian
1974-12-22
100 people reported unemployment and Christmas consumerism in Copenhagen
1974-12-23
One hundred Santa Claus reported Christmas marketing in Copenhagen and were arrested

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1999-11-16
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HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress
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40
years ago
1984-11-12
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40
years ago
1984-11-04
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1979-11-11
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45
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1979-11-04
The Basque movement is born in the Basque Country
45
years ago
1979-11-02
Assata Shakurre, a member of the Black Panthers, fled jail in the US
50
years ago
1974-11-24
In Ethiopia, the Lucy skeleton, a fingerprint of human ancestors over 3 million years old, was discovered.
50
years ago
1974-11-13
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55
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1969-11-19
General strike for the right to housing in Italy
55
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1969-11-12
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65
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70
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75
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