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A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL

35
years ago

16 March 1989,

A young Portuguese woman was attacked, burned with a cigarette on her arm and marked on her right leg the acronym GAL. He was only heading for Santurtzi when he was attacked by these uncontrolled. GAL is one of the names that the Spanish secret services used for the dirty war. These groups killed at least 70 people in the Basque Country.

Source:

Basque Memory

On this day
1540The Inquisition publicly tried in Pamplona 69 ochagaves accusing them of “witchcraft”
2002Two activists chained in one of the lotteries in the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid
2007American banker Chiquita Brands acknowledged her collaboration with Colombian paramilitary groups
1939Prohibition of writing in Basque in Hego Euskal Herria

This year in history: < >
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1989-01-22
ETA and the Government of Spain set up the negotiating table for Algiers
1989-02-14
Iranian imam Khomeini ordered the writer Salman Rushdie to be murdered for his novel 'Satanic verses'
1989-03-16
A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL
1989-03-24
Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska
1989-03-26
A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun
1989-04-18
A group of conscientious objectors interrupted the passage of a military convoy in Vitoria
1989-05-12
They sent the Attorney General of Spain the "Navajas Report" on the Civil Guard's relationship with EH's heroin.
1989-06-05
A man stood before a bunch of tanks in Beijin, China.
1989-07-05
Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case
1989-08-23
Two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain of 675 kilometres for the independence of their peoples
1989-09-05
Government banned the issuance of TV3 in Valencian Country
1989-10-18
The Leitzaran Highway Coordinator started an indefinite camp
1989-10-19
Fire at the Vandellòs I nuclear power plant in Tarragona
1989-11-02
Nun Dianna Ortiz, who worked with indigenous people, was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan military
1989-11-20
HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress
1989-12-20
US invades Panama
1989-12-30
In the march of the Herrera de la Mancha, 12,000 people met in Madrid

This month's anniversaries:
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5
years ago
2019-03-15
The Fridays for future climate movement celebrated its first international strike
20
years ago
2004-03-13
Baker Angel Berrueta was killed in Pamplona by a Spanish police and his son
20
years ago
2004-03-11
Al Qaeda in Madrid
25
years ago
1999-03-24
NATO launches bombing of Yugoslavia
25
years ago
1999-03-20
The body of Joxelu Geresta Mugika Ttotto, member of ETA, was found under an apple from a Errenteria farmhouse
35
years ago
1989-03-26
A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun
35
years ago
1989-03-24
Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska
35
years ago
1989-03-16
A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL
40
years ago
1984-03-23
The GAL shot dead Mondragonese refugee Xabier Pérez de Arenaza Sogorb in Biarritz
40
years ago
1984-03-22
Segmented against five members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commands at Pasai Donibane
40
years ago
1984-03-06
Start a historic strike by miners in the UK against Tatcher
40
years ago
1984-03-01
Didier Lafitte, a member of the American team, was killed by French police in Baiona
45
years ago
1979-03-28
Three Miles Island nuclear accident occurred in the United States
45
years ago
1979-03-03
23 Basque prisoners in Soria prison cut their veins
50
years ago
1974-03-23
Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime
50
years ago
1974-03-02
Salvador Puig Antich was executed by the Franco regime
60
years ago
1964-03-30
Gernika celebrated the Aberri Eguna, the first held in the South since 1936
65
years ago
1959-03-10
300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama palace to prevent the Chinese army from stopping it
70
years ago
1954-03-09
Bobby Sands is born in a Catholic family in Belfast
70
years ago
1954-03-01
U.S. nuclear test caught 23 Japanese sailors on Bikini Atoll
75
years ago
1949-03-30
Following the protest against Iceland's entry into NATO in Reykjavik
75
years ago
1949-03-07
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana Argala was born in Arrigorriaga
80
years ago
1944-03-27
US aircraft bombed Anglet and Biarritz
80
years ago
1944-03-25
76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III
80
years ago
1944-03-23
Italian anti-fascist partisans attack Nazis in Rome
85
years ago
1939-03-28
Francoists turned the fronton Euskal Jai of Pamplona into prison
85
years ago
1939-03-16
Prohibition of writing in Basque in Hego Euskal Herria
105
years ago
1919-03-04
Kinmel Park Matxinada begins in the Welsh town of Abergele
120
years ago
1904-03-06
José Antonio Agirre, first president of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, was born
125
years ago
1899-03-06
The pharmaceutical company Bayern recorded aspirin
145
years ago
1879-03-14
Albert Einstein is born, one of the most important scientists in history.
155
years ago
1869-03-24
In New Zealand the lifting of majorities against the British ends
165
years ago
1859-03-19
Josefa Ignacia Albisu Aranburu Joxpinaxi was born in Lazkao
180
years ago
1844-03-10
Born the Madrid musician Pablo Sarasate
190
years ago
1834-03-29
The Zumalacárregui army defeated the liberal troops between Abárzuza and Muro in Navarre
230
years ago
1794-03-13
Two young seafarers were murdered with guillotine for helping those wishing to leave the French Army
230
years ago
1794-03-03
Paris ordered the deportation of robbers
570
years ago
1454-03-09
An Italian explorer was born that would call the American continent: America Vespucio