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Events on Thursday 20 December 1973 1
1973Assassination of Luis Carrero BlancoBasque separatist group ETA kills Spanish prime ministerETA militants detonated a bomb under a Madrid street, killing Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, a close ally of dictator Francisco Franco who had been groomed as his successor. The assassination destabilized the final years of the Franco regime.