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July 29, 1910
On July 29, 1910, the two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered.
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Featured · July 29, 1910
The two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered.
The Slocum massacre was the killing of Black residents by whites on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. Only seven deaths were officially confirmed, but some 22 were reported by major newspapers. This is the official count, but it is estimated that as many as three hundred African Americans were killed.
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1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th…
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On July 29, 1910
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1910 The two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered. 1910 event in the U.S. state of Texas
The Slocum massacre was the killing of Black residents by whites on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. Only seven deaths were officially confirmed, but some 22 were reported by major newspapers. This is the official count, but it is estimated that as many as three hundred African Americans were killed.
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Other moments from 1910
- April 12 SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
- April 16 The oldest indoor ice hockey arena used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
- April 28 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
- April 29 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
- April 5 The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.
- August 20 Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people.
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