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Defend America on Monday, May 04, 2009 6:35:10 AM
May 4,
1886
The Haymarket Square Riot
At
Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, a bomb is thrown at a squad of
policemen attempting to break up a labor rally. The police responded
with wild gunfire, killing several people in the crowd and injuring
dozens more.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4972
May 4,
1776
Rhode Island declares independence
On
this day in 1776, Rhode Island, the colony founded by the most radical
religious dissenters from the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony,
becomes the first North American colony to renounce its allegiance to
King George III. Ironically, Rhode Island would be the last state to
ratify the new American Constitution more than 14 years later on May
29, 1790.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=612
May 4,
1970
National Guard kills four at Kent State
In
Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of
antiwar demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four
students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4973
1989 - Oliver North, a former White House aide was convicted of
shredding documents and two other crimes. He was acquitted
of nine other charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair.
The three convictions were later overturned on appeal.
1998 - Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento,
CA. The sentence was under a plea agreement that spared Kaczynski the death penalty.