Category: 1970s
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28-year-old Karen Silkwood Died in a Car Crash Near Crescent, Oklahoma. November 13, 1974.
Image: Karen Silkwood (Public Domain) On this day in history, November 13, 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood died in a car crash near Crescent, Oklahoma. Silkwood was employed as a technician at a plutonium plant run by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, and she condemned the plant’s health and safety procedures. The evening she perished, she was going…
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Ronald DeFeo Jr. Went on Trial for Slaughtering his Parents and Four Brothers and Sisters in their Amityville, New York, Home. The Event Was the Inspiration for the Amityville Horror Books & Movies. October 14, 1975.
Image: Mugshot taken of Ronald DeFeo, taken following his arrest. (Public Domain) On this day in history, October 14, 1975, Ronald DeFeo Jr. went on trial for slaughtering his parents and four brothers and sisters in their Amityville, New York, home. The family’s house was afterward thought to be haunted and provided the idea for…
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Over One Million People Gathered in Beijing for the Memorial Service of Mao Zedong, the Leader of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Since 1949. September 18, 1976
Image: Mao Zedong, 1959. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, September 18, 1976, over one million people gathered together at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for the memorial service of Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and chairman of the People’s Republic of China since 1949. Over an…
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The four-day Uprising at the Maximum-Security Attica Correctional Facility at Buffalo, New York, Ends When Officers Storm the Complex. Thirty-Nine People Died in the Disastrous Assault. September 13, 1971.
Image: The Attica Prison Riot, 1971. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, September 13, 1971, the four-day uprising at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility close to Buffalo, New York, ends when hundreds of state and local police officers storm the complex in a hail of gunfire. Thirty-nine people died in the disastrous assault, including…
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Doors Frontman Jim Morrison Goes on Trial for “lewd and lascivious behavior” at the Dade County Courthouse in Miami, Florida. August 10, 1970.
(Image: A mug shot of Morrison, taken on September 20, 1970. Wikimedia Commons) On this day in history, the Doors frontman Jim Morrison goes on trial for “lewd and lascivious behavior” at the Dade County Courthouse in Miami, Florida. The charges stem from events at the band’s concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium during a…
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