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1967 New York City freight train collision: rail 6 [143] 1962 Queens soap plant fire: fire 6 [92]: 109 1943 Harlem riot of 1943: mass unrest 6 [144] 1912 Equitable Life Building fire: fire 6 [145] 1891 1891 New York City train collision: rail 6 [146] 2018 2018 New York City helicopter crash: aircraft 5 [147] 1991 Union Square derailment: rail 5 ...
Geneva Protocol Prohibited the "use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods" in international conflicts. 1972 Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention: No verification mechanism, negotiations for a protocol to make up this lack halted by USA in 2001. 1993
The following is a list of civil unrest in New York where no deaths occurred listed in ascending order by year, from earliest to latest. The number of injured is listed in cases where the number is known. 1834 – Anti-abolitionist riot [33] 1837 – Flour Riots [4] 1844 – Brooklyn riot [5] 1857 – New York City Police Riot, 53 injured [6]
A facsimile of the signature-and-seals page of The 1864 Geneva Convention, which established humane rules of war. The original document in single pages, 1864 [1]. The Geneva Conventions are international humanitarian laws consisting of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war.
1935 – Harlem Riot, March 19–20, New York City; first "modern" race riot due to attacks turning from against people to against property; 1935 – Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Riot, Arkansas; 1935 – Terre Haute General Strike, July 22–23, A labor dispute between an enameling company and a labor union led to a two-day general strike.
Protocol I (also Additional Protocol I and AP I) [4] is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions concerning the protection of civilian victims of international war, including "armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination, alien occupation or racist regimes". [5]
The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, [3] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American ...
On October 5, 31-year old Jonathan Price was killed by a police officer in Wolfe City, Texas, after allegedly trying to break off a fight. [96] [97] Protests broke out in major cities to which New York City and Los Angeles faced property damage after night of vandalism.