A riot brook out in Harlem when local residents suspect that a
Black boy has been beaten, and possibly killed, by a white
business owner. Although the rumors turn out to be false,
the riot highlighted the struggles of Harlem’s historically Black community against discrimination during the Great Depression.

At Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, a bomb was thrown at
a squad of policemen attempting to break up what had begun as
a peaceful labor rally. The police responded with wild gunfire,
killing several people in the crowd and injuring dozens more.

The demonstration, which drew some 1,500 Chicago workers,
was organized by German-born labor radicals in protest of the
killing of a striker by the Chicago police the day before.

 
SANDY KOZEL

Jerome Allen Seinfeld

Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer is 70
today. Comedy Central named him the 12th-greatest
stand-up comedian of all time.            

Painting in the National Museum of Ireland of the 1916 Easter Rising.

On April 24, 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish
Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish
nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launched the so-called
Easter Rising, an armed uprising against British rule.

Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly,
Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British
provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized
the Irish capital’s General Post Office.

James Connolly was the Leader of The Irish
Citizen Army.