This day in history May 1, 2019
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Started by metmike - May 1, 2019, 1:12 a.m.

Read as many as you want to learn about or remember. Don't read em and stay dumb(just kidding).  Pick one for us. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1

1866 – The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.


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By metmike - May 1, 2019, 1:15 a.m.
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Memphis riots of 1866

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_riots_of_1866

Investigation of the riot suggested specific causes related to competition in the working class for housing, work, and social space: Irish immigrants and their descendants competed with freedmen in all these categories. The white planters wanted to drive freedmen out of Memphis and back to plantations, to support cotton cultivation with their labor. The violence was a way to enforce white supremacy after the end of slavery.[6]

By metmike - May 1, 2019, 1:18 a.m.
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Pluto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto


Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun. After 1992, its status as a planet was questioned following the discovery of several objects of similar size in the Kuiper belt. In 2005, Eris, a dwarf planet in the scattered disc which is 27% more massive than Pluto, was discovered. This led the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term "planet" formally in 2006, during their 26th General Assembly. That definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet

By carlberky - May 1, 2019, 9:38 p.m.
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A significant date in WW ii history.

By metmike - May 1, 2019, 10:03 p.m.
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Wow 7 different incidents on just this date for one event...........that's a record here.