Thursday, March 25, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 25

1911:Nearly 150 people, mostly young immigrant women, die in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory in New York. Their deaths will spur the nation’s labor movement.

1957: Customs agents seize 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl. A federal judge later rules the poem is not obscene.

1996: Armed Freemen on a Montana ranch dubbed Justice Township begin an 81-day standoff with federal agents—the longest siege in the FBI’s history.

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