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![Policemen search among the damages caused by a bomb attack, in which Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was killed. [STAFF/AFP/GettyImages]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/francoAssassination.jpg)
On this day in 1973, Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, the hand-picked successor to fascist Francisco Franco, was killed in a car bombing by Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), a left-wing, Basque separatist group.
Image: Policemen search among the damages caused by a bomb attack, in which Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was killed. [STAFF/AFP/GettyImages]
On this day in 1828, the state legislature of Georgia enacted a series of laws which stripped the Cherokee people of their legal rights in order to force them out of the state, ultimately culminating in the "Trail of Tears".
![An Okinawan policeman surveys the damage hours after the riot [WikiCommons]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/kozaRiot.jpg)
On this day in 1970, a spontaneous uprising against U.S. military occupation broke out in Koza, Okinawa, Japan after an American drunk driver struck a local pedestrian. Approximately 60 Americans and 27 Okinawans were injured.
Image: An Okinawan policeman surveys the damage hours after the riot [WikiCommons]
Marta Russell, born on this day in 1951, was a U.S. writer and disability rights activist. "There is no Death with Dignity when people choose to die because health care economics and the social services system prevent life with dignity."