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New Zealand Professor Blair Peach was killed by police in England during a demonstration against fascism

45
years ago

23 April 1979,

New Zealand socialist professor Blair Peach was killed by the Special Police Patrol in England during a demonstration against fascism. He was beaten to leave him unconscious and died in the hospital. The jury called the incident an accident.

The Negu Gorria group told the event in the song for Reggae Peach, in the song version of Linton Kwesi Johnson.

 

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1979-01-14
The Civil Guard rebelled against the concentration against the Lemoiz power plant in Mungia
1979-02-03
Ecologists managed to stop a convoy from Lemoniz to the Ascó II nuclear power station in Tarragona.
1979-02-03
100,000 women took to the streets against restricting their rights in Tehran
1979-02-12
The World Climate Conference met for the first time in Geneva
1979-03-03
23 Basque prisoners in Soria prison cut their veins
1979-03-28
Three Miles Island nuclear accident occurred in the United States
1979-04-23
New Zealand Professor Blair Peach was killed by police in England during a demonstration against fascism
1979-05-04
ETA boss Txomin Iturbe was shot at a minibus in Biarritz when he was travelling by car
1979-05-11
The workers of the port of Bizkaia refused to download the materials intended for the Lemoiz plant
1979-06-03
A civil guard in Tudela killed ecologist entrepreneur Gladys del Estal
1979-06-10
'Francis' is killed by a street dress police in Errenteria
1979-06-22
The plenary of the Ondarroa City Hall supported the disobedience campaigns being carried out to stop the Lemoiz nuclear power plant.
1979-06-26
Mirentxu Purroy, director of the newspaper 'Egin', and Mikel Lmalda, director of trade, are arrested
1979-07-19
FSLN guerrillas entered the Nicaraguan capital of Managua and ended the Somoza dictatorship
1979-07-20
Indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier fled jail with two other colleagues in the United States
1979-07-27
Marielle Franco is born, Afro-Brazilian feminist and socialist activist
1979-08-30
American actor Jean Seberg, a follower of the Black Panthers, committed suicide
1979-09-01
Donostiarra Iñaki Kijera was shot by Spanish police during his demonstration in favor of refugees
1979-11-02
Assata Shakurre, a member of the Black Panthers, fled jail in the US
1979-11-04
The Basque movement is born in the Basque Country
1979-11-11
Mikel Arrangi Marin was killed by the Civil Guard in Etxarri Aranaz
1979-12-15
Jesús Mari Leizaola, president of the Exile Government, returned to Euskal Herria

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