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Six Cherokee were wounded including the defendant and the judge. [21] Colfax massacre: 1873 Apr 13 Colfax: Louisiana: 83–153 Black people killed at courthouse and as prisoners afterwards. [22] Coushatta massacre: 1874 Aug Coushatta: Louisiana: 11–26 Six whites, remainder black killed as political intimidation. [23] [24] Election riot of ...
Newspaper accounts noted numerous attempts at arson. For instance, on July 31, more than 30 arson fires were started in the Black Belt before noon, while rioters stretched cables across the streets to keep out fire trucks. [27] The Chicago mayor's office was informed of a plan to burn down the black area and run its residents out of town.
2018 – Kemerovo fire at the Winter Cherry complex mall in Kemerovo, Russia, killed 60 people. The blaze started on the top floor of the four-story complex, and people were seen jumping from windows to escape it. [64] [65] 2018 – Camp Fire. California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire left at least 81 people dead and torched more ...
In February 1903, U.S. Senator Hamilton Kean spoke against Arizona's statehood. He said Mormons who fled from Idaho to Mexico would return to the U.S. and mix in the politics of Arizona. [44] In 1912, Arizona almost entered the Union as part of New Mexico in a Republican plan to keep control of the U.S. Senate. The plan, while accepted by most ...
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and ...
30th June: 19 members of the Prescott Fire Department were killed fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire. [262] Population in Phoenix estimate of 1,513,367. [263] 2014 – Cubs Park opens in Mesa. 2015 January 1: The Lowell Discovery Telescope, constructed with funding from the Discovery Channel, and owned by Lowell Observatory becomes fully ...
An 18-year-old woman killed six people during a robbery at a drug house in Detroit. [61] [62] February 10, 1990 Las Cruces, New Mexico: 5 2 7: Las Cruces bowling alley massacre: Two unknown perpetrators entered the bowling alley and killed four people and injured three before fleeing. Though one victim later died from their injuries in 1999.
As many as 300 black people were killed and 10,000 left homeless after whites attacked and destroyed the Greenwood district of Tulsa, known as "Black Wall Street". 1922 Jay, Florida: 175 Black residents fled the town after a death of a white farmer who was shot by a black farmer in self-defense. [20] [21] January 1923 Rosewood, Florida