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Pac-Man video game launch in Japan

44
years ago

21 May 1980,

Launch of the Pac-Man video game in Japan. Namco's game quickly became a phenomenon and ended the hegemony of Space Invaders. Toru Iwatani designed the game and said the goal was to get video games to a wider audience, as until then men were almost the only ones who played video games.

Source:

Martí Plà, Pac-Man, the videojoc that ho va canviar tot (Ab Origine Magazine, May 2020).

On this day
1935Workers at the Jamaican port of Falmouth started a strike and protests spread across the country
1937'Havana' left Santurtzi with 3,840 Basque children fleeing war to the United Kingdom
1968Constitution of the Staff and Students Action Commission to coordinate its actions in the May 68 uprising

This year in history: < >
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1980-01-08
The body of Ana Teresa Berroeta, a 19-year-old, was found in Loiu
1980-01-16
Carlos Saldise Korta was killed in Lezo by a Spanish police group
1980-01-17
Strike in Errenteria to denounce the rape and murder of several women by Spanish extreme right groups
1980-01-20
Four people were killed by the extreme right GAE terrorist group with the bomb in Alonsotegi
1980-01-21
Three ETA prisoners (pm) escape from Martutene prison
1980-01-31
30 activists occupied the Spanish embassy in Guatemala to denounce the abuses of the dictatorship
1980-02-02
The body of young Yolanda González Martín de Deusto appears in Madrid after the kidnapping, torture and death of paramilitary groups BVE
1980-02-10
The young Vicente Cuervo Calvo was killed in the Madrid district of Vallecas in protest against an act that was to be the union of the fascist party Force Nueva
1980-02-27
Armed guerrilla M-19 entered the Dominican Republic embassy in Bogotá and kidnapped several diplomats
1980-03-15
Books persecuted by Spanish censorship were put on sale in San Sebastian Street
1980-03-23
Oscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador, launched the sermon of fire
1980-03-26
Txomin Olhagarai and Ramuntxo Arruiz Iparretarras members died of explosives in preparation
1980-04-19
Basque Spanish Battalion Killed Hernaniarra Felipe Sagarna Ormazabal 'Zapa'
1980-04-26
Spanish police kidnapped newspaper Egin
1980-05-03
The German anti-nuclear movement occupied the plot intended to build a nuclear cemetery.
1980-05-14
Hernaniarra Martín Zabaleta reached the Everest summit with sherpa Pasang Temba
1980-05-21
Pac-Man video game launch in Japan
1980-05-24
150,000 people at the Plogoff of Britain celebrated that they had won the battle against the nuclear power plant
1980-05-27
Sheep pastor Mikel Arrizurieta Balda dies in Lizarraga due to the explosion of a Spanish army bus
1980-06-03
House lights were summoned to shut down on the first anniversary of Gladys del Estal's murder
1980-06-11
The 'naparra', member of Anti-Capitalist Autonomous Commands, disappeared.
1980-08-02
At Bologna train station, with a bomb, he killed 85 people on the right and blamed the left.
1980-08-30
Spanish Basque Battalion Killed Anjel Etxaniz in Ondarroa Shooting with Crutches
1980-09-07
Miguel Mari Arbelaitz and Luis Mari Elizondo murdered in Hernani
1980-11-07
ETA female command explodes a bomb in the Sukarrieta chalet of gynecologist Juan Antonio Usparicha
1980-11-13
Spanish Basque Battalion Killed Hernaniarra Joaquín Antimasbere in Urnieta
1980-11-29
The first Korrika left Oñati under the motto 'You also say to the Basque'
1980-12-02
They banned the exhibition of ikurrina in public institutions in Navarra
1980-12-19
Guatemalan army kidnaps and removes feminist writer Alaide Foppa
1980-12-30
Spanish Basque Battalion killed refugee Joxe Martín Sagardia in Biarritz

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-05-24
Stormé DeLarverie dies in New York
10
years ago
2014-05-02
Ukrainian neo-nazis killed 48 people in the Union House of Odessa
15
years ago
2009-05-07
Patxi López took over as president of the CAV, taking advantage of the fact that the Abertzale left was illegalized.
20
years ago
2004-05-09
Cadyrov is killed by the Chechenese in an attack, the man of trust and the president of Russia, Putin
30
years ago
1994-05-11
The KEM Group took action in favour of input into the Bilbao Military Government
30
years ago
1994-05-07
A group of young people occupied the gaztetxe Euskal Jai of Pamplona
30
years ago
1994-05-07
One hundred Navarros Passions Closed the Lap to Spain Stage
35
years ago
1989-05-12
They sent the Attorney General of Spain the "Navajas Report" on the Civil Guard's relationship with EH's heroin.
40
years ago
1984-05-19
13 members of Navarra were expelled from the party by the PNV executive assembly
45
years ago
1979-05-11
The workers of the port of Bizkaia refused to download the materials intended for the Lemoiz plant
45
years ago
1979-05-04
ETA boss Txomin Iturbe was shot at a minibus in Biarritz when he was travelling by car
50
years ago
1974-05-20
Roke Mendez and Joxe Luis Mondragon, members of ETA, were gunned down in the Hondarribia moat
50
years ago
1974-05-12
The Tximist expedition was 320 meters from the Everest Summit
55
years ago
1969-05-30
Viola's case, which refused to hide with her rapist, shook Italy
55
years ago
1969-05-25
A group of entrepreneurs managed to stay half a year after recruiting people for the Vietnam War
55
years ago
1969-05-06
Deusto University students boycotted the US Army music band
80
years ago
1944-05-26
Marseille workers started a general strike in the middle of World War II
100
years ago
1924-05-06
Nestor Basterretxea was born in Bermeo
115
years ago
1909-05-01
San Sebastian first hosts the red flag
190
years ago
1834-05-05
The newspaper El Correo del Norte published the first newspaper article in Basque from Hego Euskal Herria.
390
years ago
1634-05-23
The leaders of the salt rebellion detained in Bilbao