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Strangeways rebellion begins in the English city of Manchester

34
years ago

01 April 1990,

The Strangeways rebellion begins in the English city of Manchester. The prisoners held a protest about the ill-treatment of themselves and got control of the prison. For 25 days, the upright prisoners remained on the roof of the prison, carrying out the longest rebellion in British prison history.

There is a documentary about this insurrection.

On this day
1994First Youth Meeting in Etxarri Aranatz
1978The Neighbourhood Associations of Gabrirota and Orereta called for “kidnapping” and demonstrated with seven public buses
2002A group of foreigners stood in solidarity with the Palestinians acting as a human shield in Arafate
1939End of the 1936 war

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1990-02-11
Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison in South Africa
1990-02-15
The Basque Parliament proclaimed the right to self-determination
1990-04-01
Strangeways rebellion begins in the English city of Manchester
1990-04-26
Seven members of the Basque Country were arrested by the Spanish Police in Euskal Herria for erasing traffic signs in Spanish
1990-06-02
Cacagalia festival in Andoain, 375
1990-06-25
In Lumbier's foz, the Civil Guard executed two ethnic groups and another seriously wounded, according to major tests
1990-07-09
48 members of the Tupac Amaru movement fled jail in Peru
1990-08-08
Fire at the Garoña nuclear power plant
1990-09-11
Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack was killed after denouncing the government against indigenous people
1990-10-26
60 climbers started a 36 night and day camp on the wall of the Atxarte quarry hanging on a platform
1990-11-14
Incidents that would last for three days began in Berlin when 1,500 police officers were to evict thirteen occupied buildings.
1990-12-06
Published the first issue of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'
1990-12-24
Marta Gónzalez, Bilbaina Internationalist Doctor, was killed by El Salvador's army

This month's anniversaries:
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15
years ago
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
They created Seaska: Federation of Ikastolas de Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea and Zuberoa
55
years ago
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
They recognized women &apos; s right to vote in the French State
85
years ago
1939-04-01
End of the 1936 war
105
years ago
1919-04-13
British soldiers shot the crowd and killed over 1,000 people in the Indian city of Amritsar
105
years ago
1919-04-10
Emiliano Zapata Dies in Mexico
105
years ago
1919-04-10
In Ireland they formed the Limerick Sobieta, printing their own currency and fixing the price of basic necessities.
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