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On this day in 1969, the "Chicago Eight", protesters associated with the 1968 DNC riots, including Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale and civil rights activist Abbie Hoffman, were indicted for conspiracy and intent to incite a riot.
Image: Photo portraits of each of the Chicago Eight
![Photograph of Ota Benga at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 [Wikipedia]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/otaBenga.jpg)
Ota Benga was a Mbuti man brought from his African homeland as a teen and displayed like an animal at the Bronx Zoo. After World War I interfered with his plans to return to Central Africa, Benga shot himself on this day in 1916.
Image: Photograph of Ota Benga at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 [Wikipedia]
On this day in 2003, Iraq was invaded by the U.S. and a "coalition of the willing", including the U.K., Australia, and others. The invasion and subsequent military occupation killed more than one million people and displaced 9.2 million Iraqis.
Image: Iraqi women and children line up for a security check by British soldiers on the outskirts of Basra, as they try to flee from this southern Iraqi town on March 30th, 2003. (Anja Niedringhaus, via apnews.com)
On this day in 1928, Xiang Jingyu, an early feminist pioneer and revolutionary in the Communist Party of China, was arrested by French officials and turned over to the Nationalist government, which executed her on May 1st that year.