Kent State Shooting Details From May 1970 Protests
National Guard members opened fire on anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University. Four students were killed and several others wounded as guards dispersed the campus crowd with tear gas and forceful action.
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Notable World Events On This Date Across History
A compact recap of milestones: Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female PM in 1979. Kaczynski’s Life sentences in 1998. Puebla battle in 1862 shaping Cinco de Mayo. Alan Shepard 1961 spaceflight. Bobby Sands’ death and Belfast clashes in 1981. Crazy Horse dies in 1877. Hindenburg disaster in 1937. Channel Tunnel opens in 1994. Steve Jobs unveils the iMac in 1998. the Cleveland kidnapping rescue in 2013. Lusitania sinking in 1915. V E Day 1945. Wounded Knee end in 1973. Nixon impeachment hearings begun in 1974. Grozny stadium blast in 2004. Panic of 1837. Promontory spike in 1869. Churchill becomes PM in 1940. Mandela sworn in 1994. One World Trade Center spire completed in 2013.
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