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thursday 18 july 2024

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Historia > Efemerideen kanala

Chemical accident in Seveso, Italy

48

years ago

10 July 1976,

A chemical accident occurred in Seveso, Italy. Explosion of a plant from the multinational Hoffman-La Roche. The white cloud formed by a very toxic gas soon expanded. In addition to killing 75,000 animals, it contaminated 18 hectare land and caused permanent damage to hundreds of inhabitants.

1937The first exiled Basque children came to Wales

1968Film premiere Ama Lur at the San Sebastian Film Festival

1977They began one of the most important mobilizations in history in the Basque Country: Freedom March

1985Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior boat exploited by French secret services in New Zealand

This year in history: < >

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1976-03-03

Spanish police killed five workers and hundreds of shooting wounded in Vitoria

1976-03-04

Cegasa workers held a strike in Vitoria to denounce the massacre caused by the Spanish police the day before

1976-03-06

Spanish police killed a young man in Tarragona in protest against the Vitoria massacre

1976-03-08

Opening of the International Tribunal for Crimes against Women in Brussels

1976-03-24

Philippine military killed Maria Lorena Barros, founder of Makibaka women's militant organization

1976-03-27

24 hours in Basque at the Velódromo San Sebastián

1976-03-30

Palestinians launched a general strike against the Israeli Government ' s decision to expropriate their lands

1976-04-05

29 prisoners escaped from Segovia prison, most ETA members

1976-04-21

The civil guard arrested Anparo Arango and becomes the face of torture

1976-05-09

Ulrike Meinhof appears dead in Germany, a well-known AF member

1976-06-12

Pasaitarra Alberto Soliño Mazas was killed by a civil guard dressed in street in Eibar

1976-06-16

Soweto uprising starts in South Africa

1976-06-18

In Etxarri Aranatz five people were killed by a bomb abandoned by Spanish military

1976-06-27

Palestinian group kidnapped an Air France aircraft with 248 Israeli passengers

1976-07-09

Normi Mentxaka was killed in Santurce by the extreme right Guerrilleros of Cristo Rey

1976-07-10

Chemical accident in Seveso, Italy

1976-07-13

Left militant against the dictatorship Sara Méndez and her newborn were kidnapped in Buenos Aires during Operation Cóndor

1976-07-14

Jochen Peiper, a Nazi war criminal, dies in France after burning his house

1976-08-29

Over 50,000 people joined the antinuclear march between Plentzia and Gorliz

1976-08-30

Submitted the KAS Alternative in Pamplona

1976-09-09

Eleven women were arrested in Basauri on charges of abortion

1976-10-06

In Thailand, students and workers were murdered

1976-10-17

Basketball team Baskonia and Askatuak brought the ikurrina to the court in Mendizorroza de Vitoria

1976-11-07

Bertsolari 'Xalbador' dies in Urepel on the day of his tribute

1976-12-05

Real Sociedad and Athletic pulled out the ikurrina even though this was banned

1976-12-10

Five prisoners disappeared from Basauri prison

This month's anniversaries:
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From newest From oldest

10

years ago

2014-07-02

Israeli settlers kidnapped Mohammed Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem

20

years ago

2004-07-25

800 people destroyed a GM corn farm in Menville, France

20

years ago

2004-07-08

The body of Basque prisoner Oihane Errazkin was found in prison

25

years ago

1999-07-22

Woodstock festival begins in New York, which would be a disaster

30

years ago

1994-07-27

Photojournalist Kevin Carter committed suicide in South Africa

30

years ago

1994-07-14

The musical group Parabellum offered a concert in Barakaldo's court at the same time as Lino Prieto's unmissable trial

35

years ago

1989-07-05

Oliver North, former US White House counselor, was convicted in the Iran-Contra case

45

years ago

1979-07-27

Marielle Franco is born, Afro-Brazilian feminist and socialist activist

45

years ago

1979-07-20

Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier fled jail with two other colleagues in the United States

45

years ago

1979-07-19

FSLN guerrillas entered the Nicaraguan capital of Managua and ended the Somoza dictatorship

50

years ago

1974-07-06

A command released ETA member Jon Urzelai, who was detained at Donostia hospital

55

years ago

1969-07-20

American spaceship Apollo 11 reaches the moon

70

years ago

1954-07-13

Frida Kahlo dies in Mexico City

80

years ago

1944-07-27

Florentino Goikoetxea, border of the Comète Network, was released from Nazi hands by resistance members at the hospital in Baiona

80

years ago

1944-07-22

The establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

80

years ago

1944-07-20

German officer Klaus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler

80

years ago

1944-07-03

Red Army enters the ghetto of Minsk

90

years ago

1934-07-05

San Francisco police killed two workers in the United States

110

years ago

1914-07-28

I. World War breaks, when disputes between European empires reached their peak

115

years ago

1909-07-31

The Barcelona riots ended, the last days of the 'Tragic Week'

130

years ago

1894-07-14

Exhibition of the first ikurrina on the balcony of the Bilbao Batzokija

185

years ago

1839-07-02

53 Africans were raised aboard the boat 'La Amistad' for the sale of slaves in Cuba

230

years ago

1794-07-27

Deported robbers agreed to return home

230

years ago

1794-07-24

Napoleonic troops won the battle of Baztan and entered Hego Euskal Herria during the Convention War

235

years ago

1789-07-01

The Navarro guerrilla Xabier Mina was born in Otao

415

years ago

1609-07-02

Inquisitor Pierre de Lancre starts witch hunting in Lapurdi