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Historia > Efemerideen kanala

Start of the Prestige oil tanker disaster

22
years ago

13 November 2002,

The Prestige oil tanker disaster begins. It drifted off the coast of Galicia. He requested the berth, but the Spanish Government did not leave it, and at six days there was a discharge of 777,000 tons of fuel in the Cantabrian River. The environmental platform Never Mais was born to denounce what happened.

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
1974Karen Silkwood, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union trade unionist, dies in a suspicious accident

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2002-01-25
200 gypsum showers appeared in the streets of Vitoria when the day dawned
2002-02-01
Victory of the Passions in Hego Euskal Herria
2002-02-02
Ten members of the Basque Country in Euskal Herria started an injunction campaign in the Gernika-Lumo court
2002-02-02
A group of injunctions confessed the documents issued by the army to the Military Government of Bilbao
2002-02-06
The political institutions Segi and Askatasuna declared their continuity after the legalization of Judge Garzón the previous day
2002-02-21
UNESCO publishes endangered Basque
2002-02-23
Six pelotaris of Ipar Euskal Herria who were in the election waived the French team
2002-03-16
Two activists chained in one of the lotteries in the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid
2002-03-25
The Nigerian Xaria court released Safiya Hussain, sentenced to stone death for becoming pregnant without a husband
2002-04-01
A group of foreigners stood in solidarity with the Palestinians acting as a human shield in Arafate
2002-04-11
They reported to the Basque Parliament the torture of Unai Romano
2002-04-14
Amorebieta neighbours held a referendum on the Boroa thermal power plant
2002-06-01
100,000 fake dyptics were distributed with the official anagram of the Basque Government, announcing subsidies for the purchase of housing
2002-06-23
Israel approves the construction of the West Bank separation wall
2002-07-17
The Spanish Legion arrested Moroccan soldiers who were on the island of Leila or Perrexil and "recovered" the territory
2002-08-17
Prisoner Ismael Berasategi fled La Santé prison in Paris, where his brother Joxean took his place
2002-08-26
The Spanish State initiated the process of illegalization of the Batasuna party
2002-08-31
The final of the World Ball Championship was suspended by four members of Works Taldea on the fronton Labrit of Pamplona
2002-09-14
The Ertzaintza attacked thousands of people demonstrating against the Union’s legalisation with water tanks
2002-10-05
Demoe denounced in Baiona the vascoafoba attitude of the French railway company SNFC
2002-10-23
Eight Israeli army reserve officers lawfully requested recognition of the right not to work in occupied Palestinian territories for reasons of conscience
2002-10-24
Three EHE members chained to the table in the Osakidetza test, as they qualified Euskera as merit
2002-11-13
Start of the Prestige oil tanker disaster
2002-12-11
A young taxi driver named Dilawar is murdered under torture by American military in Afghanistan
2002-12-17
There were riots in the trial of two members of Works and Demo in the Baiona court, who denied the declaration in Basque.
2002-12-21
Several activists, dressed in Olentzero and Barbero, climbed to the La Santé prison wall in Paris
2002-12-28
In Galicia, in A Coruña, 10,000 people met to report the Prestige oil tanker disaster

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5
years ago
2019-11-21
Getaria’s former fishing boat ‘Aita Mari’ made the first rescue in the Mediterranean Sea
5
years ago
2019-11-10
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Aymara president, stopped in office by denouncing the coup d’état against him
5
years ago
2019-11-01
Durango welcomed over 3,000 women* in the V Basque Country. Feminist Conferences
10
years ago
2014-11-09
In the popular consultation on independence, 2.3 million Catalans voted
15
years ago
2009-11-24
Spanish police arrested 34 Basque youth in the largest raid against Segi
20
years ago
2004-11-28
The Chilean Government published a report on torture during the dictatorship.
20
years ago
2004-11-11
Jasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian National Authority, dies in Paris from unknown causes
25
years ago
1999-11-30
Battle of Seattle begins
25
years ago
1999-11-25
Solidarity with Itoiz occupied the International Court of Justice in The Hague
25
years ago
1999-11-18
Bilbaíno Iñigo Egiluz and Colombian Jorge Luis Mazo were killed by Colombian paramilitaries
25
years ago
1999-11-16
Aratz Gallastegi refused to play with the Spanish rugby team
30
years ago
1994-11-02
Fine Arts students tried to occupy the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao at the request of Basque professors
35
years ago
1989-11-20
HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress
35
years ago
1989-11-02
Nun Dianna Ortiz, who worked with indigenous people, was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan military
40
years ago
1984-11-23
The Spanish Police entered the Euskalduna shipyard in Bilbao and caused the death of the worker Pablo González.
40
years ago
1984-11-22
Start a two-day general strike in Hego Euskal Herria to report the murder of Santi Brouard
40
years ago
1984-11-20
Santi Brouard was killed by GAL in Bilbao
40
years ago
1984-11-19
There was one of the worst industrial disaster in the world, with explosions in the oil deposits PEMEX of San Juanico, Mexico
40
years ago
1984-11-16
Police arrested 2,000 rented tenants in South African city of Johannesburg
40
years ago
1984-11-12
Four pacifists destroyed a nuclear missile hole in Missouri, USA
40
years ago
1984-11-04
The first free elections in the history of Nicaragua, after the victory of the Sandinista Revolution
45
years ago
1979-11-11
Mikel Arrangi Marin was killed by the Civil Guard in Etxarri Aranaz
45
years ago
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
Karen Silkwood, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union trade unionist, dies in a suspicious accident
55
years ago
1969-11-19
General strike for the right to housing in Italy
55
years ago
1969-11-12
Journalist Seymour Hersh during the Vietnam War reported the massacre of 100 unarmed civilians
65
years ago
1959-11-10
They closed the clandestine ikastola of Iralabarri (Bilbao)
70
years ago
1954-11-01
Algerian War of Independence
75
years ago
1949-11-18
In Nigeria, 21 Grebalaris miners and the people around fired at the Enagu coal mine owned by the British government.
75
years ago
1949-11-02
The Francoist mayor of Gernika ordered the abolition and placement of the inscriptions in Basque from the cemetery
85
years ago
1939-11-17
Eight students and one teacher were killed by the Nazis in Prague, Czechoslovakia
85
years ago
1939-11-08
With a bomb they tried to kill Hitler in Munich
100
years ago
1924-11-07
A group of anarchists broke into Bera early in the morning with the aim of turning Spain
160
years ago
1864-11-29
U.S. Army Killed The People of Cheiene and Arapaho in Sand Creek
180
years ago
1844-11-14
Feminist and socialist thinker Flora Tristan dies in Bordeaux
240
years ago
1784-11-27
It was forbidden to speak in Basque at the school of Aia and recommended the sanction of the ring
415
years ago
1609-11-30
Galileo Galilei first watched the moon with a telescope
485
years ago
1539-11-30
Mexican Basque Inquisitor Juan Zumarraga ordered a Aztec citizen to burn alive