Haymarket Bombing: A Bomb Kills Police at a Labor Rally, America Panics
A bomb detonates among Chicago police dispersing a labor rally, instantly killing eight officers and wounding sixty others before the crowd retaliates with gunfire. This violence sparks a wave of anti-union hysteria that leads to the execution of four anarchists and cements May Day as an international symbol for workers' rights.
May 4, 1886
140 years ago
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What Else Happened on May 4
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