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On this day in 1913, the Italian Hall Disaster took place when someone falsely shouted "fire" at a crowded workers' party, resulting in the deaths of seventy-three members of working class families, mostly children, in Calumet, Michigan.
On this day in 1949, the South Korean Army slaughtered 86-88 unarmed civilians, including 32 children, in Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang while disguised as communist guerillas. The government blamed the massacre on communists for decades.
Image: A map of Korea with the North Gyeongsang province highlighted
Stormé DeLarverie, born on this day in 1920, was a biracial, queer icon whose reported scuffle with police was the spark that ignited the Stonewall Riots in 1969. "[Stonewall] was a rebellion...it wasn't no damn riot."