May 30, 1937
A thousand striking steel workers, on their way to picket the Republic Steel plant in south Chicago where they were organizing a union, were stopped by the Chicago Police. In what became known as the “Memorial Day Massacre,” police shot and killed ten fleeing workers, wounded 30 more, and beat 55 so badly they required hospitalization.
May 30, 2012
Former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, was sentenced by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (a judicial body set up by the government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations) to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
