A total of 128 convict miners, leased to a coal company under the state?s shameful convict lease system, are killed in an explosion at the Banner coal mine outside Birmingham, Ala.
The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs at a slave market in New York City?s Wall Street area. Twenty-one blacks were executed for killing nine whites. The city responded by strengthening its slave codes - 1712
Columnist Victor Riesel, a crusader against mob infiltration of unions, was blinded in New York City when an assailant threw sulfuric acid in his face - 1956