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The Batang Kali Massacre, described by BBC producer Christopher Hale as "Britain's My Lai", was the killing of 24 unarmed Malaysian villagers by British troops on this day in 1948. No charges were ever brought against the perpetrators.
Image: British troops were conducting operations against communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency when the plantation workers were killed. Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Images
Lola Ridge, born on this day in 1873, was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications.
On this day in 1866, the Oaks Colliery explosion occurred in Yorkshire, England, killing 361 miners and rescuers, aged 10 to 67. No capitalist or supervisor was ever held accountable for the workers' deaths at the colliery.
![The office and counter area inside the Banca Nazionale
dell'Agricoltura in Milan after the explosion [italyonthisday.com]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/piazzaFontanaBombing.jpg)
The Piazza Fontana Bombing was a false flag, fascist terrorist attack in Milan that occurred on this day in 1969, committed by "Ordine Nuovo" with help from police. The attack was blamed on anarchists and led to the death of Giuseppi Pinelli.
Image: The office and counter area inside the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Milan after the explosion [italyonthisday.com]