Greenpeace Timeline of Events

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Timeline of Events

1972

5.4.1972

The ''Don't Make A Wave Committee'', a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".

1985

7.10.1985

Greenpeace vessel ''Rainbow Warrior'' is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

2006

1.12.2006

The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.