The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Depression-era National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional, about a month before it was set to expire ? 1935
Striking shoemakers in Philadelphia are arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy for violating an English common law that bars schemes aimed at forcing wage increases. The strike was broken - 1805
After 14 years of construction and the deaths of 27 workers, the Brooklyn Bridge over New York?s East River opens. Newspapers call it ?the eighth wonder of the world? - 1883