April 20, 1914
In what would be come to be known as the Ludlow Massacre, the Colorado National Guard, their salaries paid by the Rockefellers, attacked a tent colony of striking miners, killing dozens of men, women, and children. After a strike leader was killed while attempting to negotiate a truce, the strikers feared the attack would intensify. To stay safe from gunfire, women and children took cover in pits dug beneath the tents. At dusk, guardsmen moved down from the hills and set the tent colony on fire with torches, shooting at the families as they fled into the hills.
April 20, 1977
In Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977), the Supreme Court ruled that “Live Free or Die” may be covered up on New Hampshire license plates. The case originated with a family of Jehovah Witnesses who argued that they “viewed the motto as repugnant to their moral, religious, and political beliefs.”
