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TIL about the Haymarket Affair, an 1886 incident in Chicago where labors striking for an 8hr workday were dispersed by police w force, killing a protestor. In response at the next rally, a protestor threw TNT at the cops, killing several w several more on both sides dying in the ensuing gunfight.

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