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1862 Oddly trueIn Brooklyn, a mob composed largely of Irish Americans attacked a group of African Americans in a riot.
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1830 First everAmerican surveyor James Thompson produced the first plat of Chicago for the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners.
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1873 First everAmerican Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
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Vintage clipping · 1924
The Union daily times (Union, S.C.), April 25, 1924
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