The Rosewood Massacre occurred after allegations that a black man had assaulted a white woman, resulting in KKK members and other white haters taking violent and murderous action against black citizens of Rosewood, Florida.

Nat Turner was an educated and religious African American slave who claimed to hear commandments from God. Nat Turner’s Rebellion was a violent insurrection against white slave owners, killing between 55 and 65 white people, but ultimately resulting in the death of three times as many slaves.

While the Articles of Confederation gave no federal rule to demand money or troops from the breakaway American Colonies, in May of 1787, state delegates convened in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention, creating the U.S. Constitution and later the Bill of Rights.

After English-speaking Native American, Squanto, helped the Pilgrims survive in a new land, Governor William Bradford called for the first Thanksgiving feast, which lasted for three days.

The Great Chicago Fire broke out on October 8th, 1871, leaving some 100,000 Chicagoans homeless after the destruction of more than 17,000 structures.

The Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17th, 1989, took the lives of 67 people and injured more than 3,000 others during the 15-second, 6.9 magnitude quake that shook the San Francisco Bay Area.

On May 6th, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created The Works Progress Administration (WPA) to employ Americans in the construction of infrastructure projects during the darkest days of the Great Depression, when unemployment rates topped 20%.