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January 4

Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law officials who institute foreclosure proceedings for the duration of the Great Depression - 1933

January 4

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January 1

Country music legend Hank Williams attends what was to be his final Musician?s union meeting, at the Elite Caf? in Montgomery, Ala. He died of apparent heart failure three days later, at age 29 - 1953

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December 31

United Mine Workers reformer Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, his wife and daughter are murdered by hitmen hired by union president Tony Boyle, who was to be convicted of the crime and eventually die in prison - 1969

December 31

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December 30

GM sit-down strike spreads to Flint, Mich., will last 44 days before ending in union victory - 1936

December 30