The newly
freed African-American population of New York, led by men
on horseback, marched in an Emancipation Day Parade from
the Battery at the
foot of Manhattan to City Hall.
Buildings
for the 1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson
Park was set ablaze, and seven were reduced to ashes. The
fire was part of the chaos in reaction to Pres. Grover
Cleveland’s calling out federal troops to end the
Pullman Strike
On "Bloody Thursday," police
armed with machine guns opened fire against striking longshoremen
and their supporters, killing two, wounding 32 more by gunfire,
and injuring 75 others at Rincon Hill in San Francisco.
The
National Labor Relations or Wagner Act became law,
recognizing
workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.
It was signed into law by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Oliver North received a
$150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part
in the Iran-Contra scandal
profits gained by selling arms to Iran
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