August 15
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school
1847: Mutiny of volunteer US regiments helping to invade Mexico.
1900: Riots erupt in New York City as a white plainclothes policeman is killed in a fight with an African-American man. The fourth racial riot in the city's history.
1906: At the second meeting of the Niagara Movement at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, W.E.B. DuBois demands equal citizenship rights for African- Americans, saying, "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or little less than our full manhood."
1913: Dublin (Ireland) genral strike and lockout.
1917: Salvadoran religious leader and martyr Oscar Romero is born, Ciudad Barrios.
1918: American 27th Infantry landed in Vladivostok ("to steady any efforts at self-defense in which the Russians themselves may be willing to accept assistance") and immediately spearheads a Japanese-initiated attack against Bolshevist forces.
1935: Willey Post and passenger Will Rogers killed in a plane crash, Point Barrow, Alaska.
1939: "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood.
1945: "VJ Day" Japan surrendered to end World War II. In San Francisco, a celebratory riot erupts.
1947: After decades of nonviolent activism, India becomes the first major Third World country in the 20th century to win independence from colonial rule. Dozens more countries would follow in the next twenty years.
1963: One hundred seventy women sit-in to protest employment discrimination by bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
1963: Governor Ross Barnett attempts to bar the graduation of James Meredith on grounds that the Univ. of Mississippi's first black had violated a school order against inflammatory remarks.
1967: Martin Luther King, Jr. urges a civil disobedience drive in northern cities and support of a peace candidate in the 1968 presidential elections (at Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta).
1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens for three days on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, Sullivan County, New York. Things that helped make Woodstock a unique event included, but were not limited to, rampant drug use, not enough food or sanitation, three deaths, two births, and four miscarriages. Oh, and lack of cops. 1973: Bombing of Cambodia ends.
1975: Joanne Little--accused of murder in killing her jailer, in self-defense against rape--acquitted.
1982: Members of 7th International Nonviolent March swim across "closed" border between Spain and Gibraltar.
1991: Guerillas bomb McDonald's and IBM in Mexico City.
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