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The rainbow flag was first used as a symbol of the LGTB collective

46
years ago

25 June 1978,

The rainbow flag was first used as a symbol of the LGTB collective. That day, the San Francisco Pride Festival was held. It was created by the artist Gilbert Baker and had eight colors, compared to the current six. Each color symbolizes a concept.

On this day
1635The Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei to give up the theory that the Earth moved around the sun
1937‘Lauaxeta’ shooting by Francoists
1982First manifestation of LGTB International Pride Day in Pamplona
1990In Lumbier's foz, the Civil Guard executed two ethnic groups and another seriously wounded, according to major tests

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1978-01-15
In Barcelona the Scala room was set on fire by a police confidant and led to an operation against anarchists
1978-01-19
They abolished the penalty of adultery in Hego Euskal Herria
1978-02-26
Four days before Tokyo Narita International Airport opens its doors in Japan, major protests
1978-03-19
5,000 workers of the company Babcock & Wilcox of Sestao occupied the plant
1978-03-26
The Basque Country Peninsular celebrated the first Aberri Eguna after Franco
1978-04-01
The Neighbourhood Associations of Gabrirota and Orereta called for “kidnapping” and demonstrated with seven public buses
1978-05-20
15,000 people tried to block Narita airport on the day it opened in Japan
1978-05-25
In New Zealand the police evicted the majorities occupying the lands of Bastion Point
1978-05-26
Adultery ceased to be a crime in Spain
1978-06-06
Hundreds of Firestone strike workers in Bilbao blocked the Bilbao bank
1978-06-25
The rainbow flag was first used as a symbol of the LGTB collective
1978-07-08
German Rodríguez is killed by the Spanish Police in the Sanfermines of Pamplona
1978-07-11
Spanish police killed Joseba Barandiaran in San Sebastian
1978-07-13
200 Spanish policemen assaulted Errenteria assaulting people, shooting windows and stealing in shops
1978-11-27
They formed the Kurdistan Workers' Party: CPC
1978-12-06
Hego Euskal Herria rejected the Spanish Constitution
1978-12-21
Spanish secret services killed 'Argala' with explosives in Angelu, one of ETA's historic bosses

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-06-20
In Wales they first organized Ras yr laith, the Korrika by the Galesa.
10
years ago
2014-06-08
The gigantic human chain that united Pamplona and Durango supported the right to decide
20
years ago
2004-06-21
In Vitoria he insulted the Juan Carlos I.ak, king of Spain, with his central finger in protest
25
years ago
1999-06-29
Turkey sentenced Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan to death
25
years ago
1999-06-19
The Supreme Court declared Southern Municipalities illegal to act only in Basque
30
years ago
1994-06-27
The Negu Gorria group offered a surprise concert at the Gipuzkoa court in a truck
30
years ago
1994-06-04
The Guipuzkoan inpassions “took” the island of Santa Clara of San Sebastian and claimed it as a demilitarized zone.
35
years ago
1989-06-05
A man stood before a bunch of tanks in Beijin, China.
40
years ago
1984-06-30
In Donostia there were very hard riots between protesters and the Spanish Police
40
years ago
1984-06-22
Ecologists picked up the contaminated water that a Hernani factory poured into the river and poured it into the plant's water supply.
40
years ago
1984-06-18
Battle of Orgreav between striking miners and UK policemen
40
years ago
1984-06-15
The Civil Guard murdered two ETA members in Hernani with a grenade inside the house
40
years ago
1984-06-06
Joseba Elosegi recovered from the Spanish army museum the ikurrina of Francoists
45
years ago
1979-06-26
Mirentxu Purroy, director of the newspaper 'Egin', and Mikel Lmalda, director of trade, are arrested
45
years ago
1979-06-22
The plenary of the Ondarroa City Hall supported the disobedience campaigns being carried out to stop the Lemoiz nuclear power plant.
45
years ago
1979-06-10
'Francis' is killed by a street dress police in Errenteria
45
years ago
1979-06-03
A civil guard in Tudela killed ecologist entrepreneur Gladys del Estal
50
years ago
1974-06-15
Kevin Gately, a 20-year-old student killed in England by a horseback policeman with a blurry blow
55
years ago
1969-06-28
The United States was seriously disturbed at the Stonewall Inn in New York by police raid on homosexuals
55
years ago
1969-06-24
Black girl Vivian Strong, 14, shot to death by white American police
55
years ago
1969-06-17
The fourteen apostles of Jorge Oteiza ended their settlement in the Basilica of Arantzazu
60
years ago
1964-06-12
Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment
70
years ago
1954-06-26
The world's first nuclear power plant begins in the Russian city of Obninsk
75
years ago
1949-06-19
In Arrasate they arrested several leftists and trade unionists because the next day he was going to visit the town of Franco
75
years ago
1949-06-10
Franco's assassination attempt failed in Barcelona
75
years ago
1949-06-06
George Orwell published his 1984 novel
80
years ago
1944-06-29
The Nazis returned to the hospital and looted farms
80
years ago
1944-06-27
The Nazis carried out a raid in Zuberoa against the citizens of the Hospital
80
years ago
1944-06-16
George Stinney, an innocent 14-year-old, is killed in the U.S. electric chair.
80
years ago
1944-06-09
Antifascist Johanna Kirchner was executed by the Nazis in Berlin prison
85
years ago
1939-06-11
Pius XII. Pope welcomed a Francoist delegation to the Vatican
100
years ago
1924-06-03
Franz Kafka dies in Vienna
110
years ago
1914-06-28
Sarajevo, Bosnia, is the scene of the First World War murder
130
years ago
1894-06-24
Anarchist Caserio killed French President Sadi Carnot in public
150
years ago
1874-06-09
Death of Cochise, leader of txirikahua apaches
270
years ago
1754-06-15
Juan José Elhuyar was born in Logroño
825
years ago
1199-06-05
Castellanos started the site of Vitoria