Clara Campoamor
1888–1972
Lawyer who won Spanish women the vote
Polloe Cemetery, San Sebastián, Basque Country
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Federico García Lorca
1898–1936
Poet and playwright, murdered at thirty-eight
Barranco de Víznar, near Alfacar, Granada — his grave has never been found
Astor Piazzolla
1921–1992
Bandoneón player who remade the tango
Jardín de Paz cemetery, Pilar, Buenos Aires Province
José de San Martín
1778–1850
Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru
Mausoleum in the Metropolitan Cathedral, Buenos Aires
Zumbi dos Palmares
1655–1695
Last leader of the free republic of Palmares
Serra da Barriga, União dos Palmares, Alagoas
Antônio Carlos Jobim
1927–1994
Composer of bossa nova
Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
The Tlatelolco Massacre
1968
1968 · students shot in the square ten days before the Olympics
Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlatelolco, Mexico City
José Guadalupe Posada
1852–1913
Engraver who gave Mexico its skeletons
Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City — his grave was lost
The Carnation Revolution
1974
1974 · a dictatorship of forty-eight years ended almost without a shot
Largo do Carmo, Lisbon
The Woodstock Festival
1969
1969 · half a million people in a dairy farmer's field
Max Yasgur's farm, Bethel, New York
The Battle of Hastings
1066
1066 · one day that changed the language and the law of England
Battle Abbey, Battle, East Sussex
The Berlin Airlift
1948–1949
1948–49 · a city of two million supplied entirely by air
Tempelhof airport, Berlin
The Wall of the Communards
1871
1871 · the last fighters of the Paris Commune were shot here
Père-Lachaise Cemetery, division 76, Paris
The Peterloo Massacre
1819
1819 · cavalry charged a crowd demanding the vote
St Peter's Field, now Peter Street, Manchester
The Launch of Apollo 11
1969
1969 · three men left for the Moon from this pad
Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
The Sinking of the Titanic
1912
1912 · 1,500 dead, and lifeboats for half those aboard
Wreck site, North Atlantic, about 600 km south-east of Newfoundland
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906–1945
Pastor executed for resisting Hitler
Flossenbürg concentration camp memorial, Bavaria