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5,000 workers of the company Babcock & Wilcox of Sestao occupied the plant

46
years ago

19 March 1978,

5,000 workers of the company Babcock & Wilcox of Sestao occupied the plant. Firstly, they protested, closed two days to defend their jobs. Families shared food in the workshop patio. In view of the suspension of payments by the company, the workers requested State intervention. The closure of the company involved the direct or indirect loss of 20,000 jobs. After many years of fighting for jobs, the factory was closed in 2011.

On this day
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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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2019-03-15
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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
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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
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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
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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
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190
years ago
1834-03-29
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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
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1454-03-09
An Italian explorer was born that would call the American continent: America Vespucio