Artists Rendition of the Haymarket Affair

The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot)
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at what began as a peaceful labor
rally on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. Workers were
striking for an eight-hour work day when an unknown person threw a dynamite
bomb at police as they tried to disperse the demonstration. The bomb and
resulting gunfire left seven police officers and at least four civilians dead,
and many others wounded. The confrontation is generally considered
significant as the origin of international May Day labor observances.

Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest
Park, ILL.

The Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-
Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed
and nine others were wounded.

At Kent State University a demonstration with about 500 students was held
on Friday, May 1 on the Commons, a grassy knoll in the center of campus. As
the crowd dispersed without incident to attend classes by 1 pm that afternoon,
another rally was planned for Monday, May 4 to continue the protest of president
Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia.

The campus of Kent State University in Ohio

Photo of firefighter Chris Fields holding a dying infant won Charles
Porter the  Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.

The British ocean liner RMS Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. on Monday, April 15, 1912
in the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg the previous evening. The ship
was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York. A total 1,514
people died. It is listed as one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in
history.

This iceberg was photographed by the chief steward of the liner Prinze Adelbert on
the morning of April 15, 1912, just south of where the Titanic sank.. What caught his attention was the smear of red paint along the base of the berg.

Color plans of Titanic

The bow of Titanic photographed in June 2004  during an expedition of the
shipwreck.