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
President Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion - 1964