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Peruvian feminist movement in Lima against the Miss Universe beauty contest

51
years ago

08 April 1973,

The Peruvian feminist movement declared in Lima against the Miss Universe beauty contest. One hundred women met in front of the Sheraton Hotel during the competition. Women opposed coding, the then press called “witch rebellion” was key in the spectacularity of the country’s feminist movement.

Source:

Franni Muños y Violeta Barrientos, An outline of Peruvian feminis mo(s): the multiple challenges.

On this day
1857Zipayo Mangal Pandey was hanged in India for an attack on British soldiers
1950Josep Lluís Faceras, a member of the CNT, exploits a police station in Barcelona
1970A nuclear submarine suffered an accident in the Gulf of Bizkaia
1986Greenpeace members entered the Nevada nuclear weapons polygon and managed to stop the test.

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1973-01-20
They killed bissauta Amílcar Cabral, leader of the anti-colonial struggle against Portugal
1973-01-27
Rita Lloyd, a 16-year-old black girl, was killed by New York Police
1973-02-27
Hundreds of citizens and AIM movement started Wounded Knee occupation in the United States
1973-03-24
Three Galicians disappeared in San Juan de Luz: Fouz, García and Quiroga
1973-03-27
Marlon Brando refused to receive Oscar for Hollywood’s treatment of countries of origin
1973-03-29
The last American soldiers left Vietnam after failing militarily
1973-04-08
Peruvian feminist movement in Lima against the Miss Universe beauty contest
1973-04-19
Eustachian Mendizabal killed the 'little' in Algorta by the Spanish Police
1973-05-08
Hundreds of members of the Indian American Movement ended the occupation of Wounded Knee
1973-05-10
They created the Polisario Front, a national liberation movement from the Sahara.
1973-05-12
Bolivian police killed Monica Ertl, a German guerrilla who sold Che Gueva
1973-08-11
Right-wing attack on Donostian society Kresala
1973-09-06
Children from home countries asked the US not to cut hair in school
1973-09-11
Chilean coup against the Allende government, with US support
1973-09-11
Pinochet, with the help of the United States, hit Allende in Chile
1973-09-16
Musician Victor Jara was killed in Chile after brutal torture
1973-10-16
Arab countries multiplied the price of oil overnight
1973-10-31
Three IRA prisoners flee in a helicopter from Mountjoy prison in Dublin
1973-12-11
The Iparretarrak group performed its first activity in Banka, Baja Navarra
1973-12-20
Carrero Blanco was killed in Madrid by ETA's Txiki command
1973-12-21
A young Spanish man is shot by the police in Madrid as the author of the Carrero Blanco attack
1973-12-28
Skylab crew strike

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2009-04-07
Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru, was sentenced to 25 years in prison
25
years ago
1999-04-05
Entrepreneurs chained to the hospital bed of the Basque prisoner Esteban Nieto
30
years ago
1994-04-27
Nelson Mandela wins elections in South Africa
30
years ago
1994-04-07
Voids started genocide against Rwanda's Tutsis
30
years ago
1994-04-01
First Youth Meeting in Etxarri Aranatz
35
years ago
1989-04-18
A group of conscientious objectors interrupted the passage of a military convoy in Vitoria
40
years ago
1984-04-22
The Ertzaintza rebelled against the AEK demonstration before the Basque Parliament
45
years ago
1979-04-23
New Zealand Professor Blair Peach was killed by police in England during a demonstration against fascism
50
years ago
1974-04-25
The leftist military launched the Carnation Revolution in Portugal against the dictatorship
50
years ago
1974-04-03
ETA killed torturing civilian guard Gregorio Posada in Azpeitia
55
years ago
1969-04-30
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55
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1969-04-12
American military base emitted gas and 6,000 sheep died in Skull Valley, Arizona
55
years ago
1969-04-06
EGI members, Artajo and Asurmendi, died while preparing a bomb
55
years ago
1969-04-02
Police raided 21 Black Panthers militants with false accusations
60
years ago
1964-04-20
Four councillors of the City of San Sebastian refused to celebrate the 25 years of peace established by Franco
60
years ago
1964-04-17
Palestinian boxer and prisoner Hamza Younis fled prison for the first time
80
years ago
1944-04-21
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85
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1939-04-01
End of the 1936 war
105
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1919-04-13
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105
years ago
1919-04-10
Emiliano Zapata Dies in Mexico
105
years ago
1919-04-10
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110
years ago
1914-04-09
Anarchist Kaxilda Hernaez is born in Zizurkil
130
years ago
1894-04-02
French feminist journalist Jeanne Deroin dies in London
135
years ago
1889-04-16
Charles Chaplin, actor and film director, was born in London
390
years ago
1634-04-20
The Spanish army enters the city to crush the bilbain uprising
415
years ago
1609-04-04
Expelled former Muslims Felipe from Spain III.ak