may 4, 1886 - Haymarket Square Riot (1886)
Description:
-Meeting for workers to gain 8-hour workday-Someone throws bomb
-At least 8 die
-Several anarchists found and sentenced to death
-Knights of labor associated with riot and anarchism (even though they had nothing to do with each other) and leads to their downfall
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Date:
may 4, 1886
Now
~ 139 years ago