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This Day in History

Today in History for 30th July 2013

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Historical Events

579 – Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1908 – Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1989 – Chile amends its constitution
1995 – Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.

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Famous Birthdays

1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1936 – Buddy Guy, rocker
1958 – Daley Thompson, London, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984)
1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1974 – Hilary Swank, Bellingham WA, actress (Karate Kid 4)
1978 – James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant

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Famous Deaths

1540 – Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1655 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
1982 – Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies
1990 – Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1996 – Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at HistoryOrb.Com – This Day in History

News, Politics, Government

Ex-leader of Basque group ETA dies in France

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Spain says a former leader of armed Basque separatist group ETA has died in a French hospital where he was receiving treatment while serving a prison sentence.

The 54-year-old Francisco Lopez Pena, alias Thierry, was taken from prison to a hospital on March 11 with heart trouble and died early Saturday from a stroke, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to give his name.

Lopez was arrested in the southern French city of Bordeaux in 2008 and documents seized during his capture led to dozens of arrests of other active ETA members.

ETA has killed more than 825 people since the late 1960s in its violent campaign for an independent state, but announced a permanent cease-fire in January 2011 following waves of arrests.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News

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Basque nationalists launch party in Spain

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Basque politicians have launched a nationalist party after Spain‘s highest court ruled it could be established because it was not directly linked to the militant separatist group ETA.

Sortu was launched formally Saturday, eight months after the Constitutional Court said it could come into existence because it was different from ETA‘s banned political wing, Batasuna.

At its inaugural congress, Hasier Arraiz was confirmed as president and a letter from imprisoned general secretary Arnaldo Otegi was read out.

Otegi is serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted in 2009 of trying to resurrect Batasuna.

Otegi’s letter said the Spanish and French states “continue to deny the status as a nation of the Basque country” and continue to “deny its right to self-determination.”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News

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Large protest for return of Basque prisoners

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Tens of thousands of Basque separatist sympathizers have marched in downtown Bilbao calling for an amnesty that would allow ETA prisoners to serve out the remainder of their sentences in the northern Spanish region rather than in jails further afield.

Protesters marched to the city’s town hall behind banners saying “Human rights, resolution, peace. Basque prisoners back home.”

Some protesters waved Catalan flags Saturday in solidarity with another northern Spanish region with an important separatist movement.

Spain has for more than two decades dispersed ETA prisoners under an amendment to the country’s 1975 anti-terrorism law. There are an estimated 700 ETA prisoners held in jails dotted around Spain and France, and only around two dozen are believed to be in Basque region prisons.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News