Violent anti-Jewish demonstrations in Europe in which hundreds of synagogues were destroyed; 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and schools were plundered; 91 Jews were murdered; and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
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The undefeated Carlisle Indian School football team faced off against the Army football team at the West Point Academy campus in front of a crowd of 3,000 people. The Carlisle team defeated Army 27–6 in this game.
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Thousands of Okinawan protesters on the island of Okinawa demanded the removal of the U.S. base there.
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Thirty thousand factory and dock workers staged the 1892 New Orleans general strike.
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A series of essays appeared in a Philadelphia newspaper from 1787 to 1789, denouncing the new U.S. Constitution, calling the proposed government a “masqued aristocracy” designed to protect the ruling class from the will of the people.
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U.S. District Court Judge handed down his decision to free Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who had been wrongfully accused of murder.
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The Union Army occupied the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, freeing approximately 10,000 people who had been enslaved, starting what became known as the Port Royal Experiment.
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Madison Washington and eighteen other enslaved people rebelled onboard the Creole, a ship involved in the U.S. slave trade.
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Minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob.
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Hundreds of protesters occupied the base of the Statue of Liberty as part of a sit-in demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
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An Indigenous-led rally at the site of the United Nations Climate Change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, drew more than 100,000 protesters to demand reparations for Indigenous communities and the Global South, investments in renewable energy instead of fossil fuels, and worker-led transitions to systems that would reduce poverty and injustice.
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Tens of thousands of people rallied outside the White House in opposition to the Keystone XL project.
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Draft cards burned in solidarity with David Miller, a Catholic pacifist who was one of the first to publicly burn his draft card.
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In the case of Buchanan v. Warley, the Supreme Court declared segregated housing to be unconstitutional.
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Delegates gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to draft a new state constitution during Reconstruction.
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Students and faculty joined in an ultimately successful anti-Apartheid campaign at Calvin College.
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Nicaragua held its first democratic elections in more than fifty years in 1984.
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Ash-Shiraa reported that the U.S. government had been secretly selling arms to Iran in a hostage release deal.
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Five people were killed when the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis fired on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Protesters from the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices in Washington, D.C. for six days.
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