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The official death toll is 36, but later investigations suggest an actual figure between 100 and 300. 1,250 homes are destroyed and roughly 6,000 African Americans imprisoned in one of the worst incidents of mass racial violence in the United States.
21 September 1921: Oppau explosion at a BASF plant in Germany; possibly as many as 1,500 were killed 542: 9 April 1945: SS Charles Henderson ammunition explosion at Bari, Italy; 1,800 injured 508: 25 February 1984: A gasoline pipeline exploded in the favela of Vila Sao Jose, Cubatão, Brazil: 500+ 19 November 1984
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1. President: Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey) (until March 4), Warren G. Harding (R-Ohio) (starting March 4) 2. Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (D-Indiana) (until March 4), Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts) (starting March 4) 3. Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana) (until May 19), William Howard Taft (Ohio) (starting July 11) 4. Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts) 5. Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts) 6. Congres...
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1. January – E. W. Scripps and William Emerson Ritter found Science Service, later renamed Society for Science & the Public, in the United States, with the goal of keeping the public informed of scientific developments. 2. January 1 – In American football, the University of California defeats Ohio State 28–0 in the Rose Bowl. 3. January 2 3.1. The first religious radio broadcast is heard, over station KDKA (AM) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 3.2. The De Young Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, S...
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1. April – The United States Figure Skating Associationis formed. 2. April 20 – Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadwayin English. 3. May 19 – The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration. Because this drastically limits immigration from Eastern Europe, Jews emigrating from there begin to prefer Palestineas a destination rather than the U.S. 4. May 22 – In the first golfinternational between the two countries, the United State...
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1. July 2 – U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary. 2. July 11 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States, making him the only person ever to hold both positions. 3. July 14 – A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettiguilty of first degree murder following a widely publicized trial. 4. July 26 – U.S....
January 1 – William Pulgram, Austrian-American architect (d. 2020)January 3January 4 – Leo Sarkisian, musicologist, broadcaster (d. 2018)January 6 – Cary Middlecoff, golfer (d. 1998)January 20 – Mary Watson Whitney, astronomer (born 1847)February 7 – John J. Gardner, member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey from 1893 to 1913 (born 1845)February 17 – Rosetta Luce Gilchrist, physician and author (born 1850)March 8 – Thomas H. Paynter, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1907 to 1913 (born 1851)Jun 1, 2021 · President Biden said during his speech in Tulsa that there was "no proper accounting of the dead" from the Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred 100 years ago. "The death toll records by local ...
Jun 1, 2020 · The official death toll recorded was 36, but some historians estimate the figure at around 300. No one was held accountable for the Tulsa race massacre. Its memory was both ignored and actively...
May 29, 2021 · In 1921, a white mob destroyed a black neighborhood in one of the country’s worst episodes of racial violence. ... The exact death toll was not recorded, but Red Cross estimates at the time put ...
Dec 7, 2020 · While the official death toll of the massacre was reported at 36, many historians believe the death toll was actually closer to 300. As well as being one of the most deadly massacres in American history, the riot is also not very well known, since news reports were largely suppressed.
