2017—Taxpayers fund a $27,000 trip so Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Sen. Mitch McConnell can visit Fort Knox and fondle some gold.
1992—Samuel Weaver, 14, and U.S. Marshal W.F. Degan die in a shootout at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Troubles ensue.
1982—The U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion murders more than 200 Salvadorans at El Calabozo.
1976—A two-day occupation of the Seabrook, N.H. nuke site begins.
1969—Traffic on Boston’s Southeast Expressway is held up: three Penn Central engines cross the roadway.
1963—Ngo Dinh Nhu’s secret police kill hundreds of Buddhist protestors across Vietnam—for democracy.
1939—Five Black men, reading quietly in Alexandria, Va.’s public library, are arrested for disorderly conduct.
1934—After three months a General Strike in Minneapolis ends with victory for workers everywhere.
1927—Justice Louis Brandeis refuses to hear a request for a stay of execution of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.
1850—Nearly 50 fugitive slaves convene in Cazenovia, N.Y. Presaging Malcolm X, they call for others to free themselves, no matter what it takes.
1831—Nat Turner begins a slave rebellion in Virginia. About 60 whites are killed in two days; whites kill twice as many Blacks in response.
1791—Haitians rise in revolt; 12 years later, history’s greatest rebellion of enslaved people ends in victory.