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Sunday, 4 May 2014

ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, May 4...

1886: A bomb kills seven police officers at Chicago's Haymarket Square, during a radical demonstration, whereupon police respond with gunfire, killing four protesters and wounding dozens more. Prosecutors frame eight prominent anarchists for the bombing, resulting in seven death sentences and one sentence of life imprisonment. Four of the condemned are later hanged, while a fifth commits suicide to escape the gallows. Governor John Peter Altgeld pardons the surviving defendants in 1893, while criticizing the circus atmosphere of their trial. The perpetrator(s) of the deadly bombing remain unidentified today.


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