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The giant Woodstock music festival ends in New York State

55
years ago

17 August 1969,

The giant Woodstock music festival ended in New York State. For three days, some 450,000 young people gathered to reclaim music and peace. It was once a powerful expression of counterculture, scandalous to many conservatives. For three days, Joan Baez, The Who, Janis Jolin, Joe Cocker and Carlos Santana participated, among others. Many entrepreneurs saw the possibility of marketing the counterculture.

On this day
1795In the Dutch colony Curaçao, a group of about 40 slaves started an uprising against the owners
1798The prisoners of the castle of La Mota de San Sebastian denounced the precarious living conditions
1991Three ETA members were killed by the Civil Guard in the Donostia district of Morlans, shooting over 600 bullets
2002Prisoner Ismael Berasategi fled La Santé prison in Paris, where his brother Joxean took his place

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1969-01-07
Members of Canadian countries protested against the company Manitoba Hydro, which sank its territory
1969-01-16
The young Jan Palach caught fire in Prague against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
1969-01-19
Boycott of San Sebastian Eve in Donostia
1969-01-24
The Franco regime established an emergency situation throughout the Spanish State.
1969-02-04
The choirs of Santa Águeda boycotted the song
1969-02-04
Jasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestine Liberation Organization
1969-04-02
Police raided 21 Black Panthers militants with false accusations
1969-04-06
EGI members, Artajo and Asurmendi, died while preparing a bomb
1969-04-12
American military base emitted gas and 6,000 sheep died in Skull Valley, Arizona
1969-04-30
They created Seaska: Federation of Ikastolas de Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea and Zuberoa
1969-05-06
Deusto University students boycotted the US Army music band
1969-05-25
A group of entrepreneurs managed to stay half a year after recruiting people for the Vietnam War
1969-05-30
Viola's case, which refused to hide with her rapist, shook Italy
1969-06-17
The fourteen apostles of Jorge Oteiza ended their settlement in the Basilica of Arantzazu
1969-06-24
Black girl Vivian Strong, 14, shot to death by white American police
1969-06-28
The United States was seriously disturbed at the Stonewall Inn in New York by police raid on homosexuals
1969-07-20
American spaceship Apollo 11 reaches the moon
1969-08-03
Felix Arnaiz Maeso was shot dead by a Spanish policeman in Rome
1969-08-17
The giant Woodstock music festival ends in New York State
1969-10-08
The Tupamanos stole some 40,000 pesos and spread them among the poor in the city in Uruguay
1969-10-30
Francoist police shot Josu Murueta to death in protest against pollution in Erandio
1969-11-12
Journalist Seymour Hersh during the Vietnam War reported the massacre of 100 unarmed civilians
1969-11-19
General strike for the right to housing in Italy
1969-12-04
FBI killed Fred Hampton, one of the leaders of the Black Panthers

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10
years ago
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years ago
1999-08-20
Action disguised as 'Giraldilla' at the opening of the World Athletics Championship
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years ago
1999-08-12
Farmers dismantled the McDonald’s building in Millaun, France
30
years ago
1994-08-24
Carlos Bue Judge Imprisoned Journalist Pepe Rei
30
years ago
1994-08-24
The Filter massacre in Uruguay, two people killed by the police in the demonstration against the extradition of Basque refugees
30
years ago
1994-08-05
Two injunctions on arrest warrant planted at the headquarters of the Military Government of Bilbao
35
years ago
1989-08-23
Two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain of 675 kilometres for the independence of their peoples
40
years ago
1984-08-11
CCOO calls on Telefónica workers not to help police paint phones in Gipuzkoa
45
years ago
1979-08-30
American actor Jean Seberg, a follower of the Black Panthers, committed suicide
50
years ago
1974-08-28
Francoist police threw members of ETA Tupa and Tanke in San Sebastian
55
years ago
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The giant Woodstock music festival ends in New York State
55
years ago
1969-08-03
Felix Arnaiz Maeso was shot dead by a Spanish policeman in Rome
60
years ago
1964-08-31
Four people were fined in Sestao for playing txistu as an instrument
60
years ago
1964-08-11
Attempted attack on dictator Franco
60
years ago
1964-08-07
U.S. Congress approved the use of the army against North Vietnam
65
years ago
1959-08-25
Miles Davis is beaten by police in New York
75
years ago
1949-08-25
They finally managed to extinguish the fire in the Landeta forest
75
years ago
1949-08-19
A giant fire took place in Landeta
80
years ago
1944-08-24
Anti-fascist soldiers liberated the city of Paris occupied by the Nazis
80
years ago
1944-08-22
30 Spanish machines, with four members of the French resistance, defeated the column of the Nazi army, composed of 1,300 men
80
years ago
1944-08-22
Revolutionary trade unionist Maria Oneker killed by the Nazis in Warsaw in an uprising against occupation
80
years ago
1944-08-14
Italian fascists killed the Irma Partisan Flag
80
years ago
1944-08-10
Resistance member Daniel Argote was arrested and executed by the Nazis in Orthol
85
years ago
1939-08-18
Hitler's government launched a program to kill newborns with severe disabilities
90
years ago
1934-08-07
Irun postpologists, all women, went on strike and occupied the workshop
100
years ago
1924-08-23
Born Madeleine Riffaud in Arvillers, France
120
years ago
1904-08-18
Born Maria Magunazelaia Loroño, first cyclist in the Basque Country
120
years ago
1904-08-14
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135
years ago
1889-08-14
The dockers of the London ports started a major strike
150
years ago
1874-08-27
Carlists took positions to siege Pamplona in the Second Carlist War
185
years ago
1839-08-31
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220
years ago
1804-08-18
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220
years ago
1804-08-16
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230
years ago
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French army burns Eibar and kills twelve citizens
230
years ago
1794-08-14
The General Meetings of Gipuzkoa propose the creation of an independent Republic of Gipuzkoa
230
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1794-08-01
The mayor of San Sebastian, Mitxelena, contacted the French troops surrounding the city to negotiate surrender
235
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