July 5

During a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company, which had drastically reduced wages, buildings constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson park were set ablaze, reducing seven to ashes - 1894

Battle of Rincon Hill, San Francisco, in longshore strike. Some 5,000 strikers fought 1,000 police, scabs and national guardsmen.  Two strikers were killed, 109 people injured.  The incident, forever known as "BloodyThursday," led to a general strike - 1934

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act - 1935

Eleven firefighters are killed in an explosion in Kingman, Ariz., as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank - 1973

Fourteen firefighters are killed battling the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain in Glenwood Springs, Colo. - 1994

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