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Article: ETA, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE ...
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- July 31, 2009
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ETA, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
These are the key events in the history of the armed Basque group
ETA: July 31, 1959: Founded by dissident student members of the
Basque Nationalist Party.
June 7, 1968: First killing: Civil Guard Jose Pardines Arcay is
shot at a checkpoint.
December 20, 1973: ETA kills the prime minister, Luis Carrero
Blanco, with a bomb in Madrid.
September 12, 1974: First major attack: 12 people killed by bomb
at a Madrid cafe.
1980: ETA's bloodiest year with 91 victims, nearly half of them
civilians.
June 19, 1987: Bloodiest attack: Car bomb in the car park of the
Hipercor department store in Barcelona kills 21 and wounds 45.
January 1989: Unilateral truce to help ultimately ...