Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the Int?l Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880
Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, goes to Butte, Mont. in an attempt to mediate a conflict between factions of the miner?s local there. It didn?t go well. Gunfight in the union hall killed one man; Moyer and other union officers left the building, which was then leveled in a dynamite blast - 1914
A total of 86 passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed, another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Indiana. Five days later the dead are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., in an area set aside as Showmen?s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen?s League of America - 1918
In England, a compassionate parliament declares that children can't be required to work more than 12 hours a day. And they must have an hour?s instruction in the Christian Religion every Sunday and not be required to sleep more than two in a bed - 1802