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Hollywood Black Friday, or Hollywood Bloody Friday, [1] is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945.On that date, a six-month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Bros.' studios in Burbank, California led by Herbert Sorrell.
October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) ... American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945) 1883 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (d. 1951)
5 October 5, 1945 (Friday) 6 October 6, 1945 ... CBS conducted a successful experiment in color television when color images were sent between the Chrysler Building ...
February 1945 U.S. Army Signal Corps: Yalta, Crimea [s 2] Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima: 23 February 1945 Joe Rosenthal: Iwo Jima, Japan Large format The photograph depicts the raising of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. [46] [s 1] [s 2] [s 3] [s 4] [s 6] Buchenwald: 15 April 1945 Margaret Bourke-White Ettersberg ...
October 3–10 – The Detroit Tigers win the World Series against the Chicago Cubs. October 5 – Hollywood Black Friday: A strike by the Set Decorator's Union in Hollywood results in a riot. October 23 – Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals, making him the first black baseball player in the International League since ...
October 1945 events by continent (5 C) * October 1945 sports events (2 C) M. Maritime incidents in October 1945 (34 P) Pages in category "October 1945"
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