[ad_1] The Boston Massacre, a conflict between colonists and British soldiers in 1770, is considered a major turning point towards the American Revolution. The soldiers fired on the colonists, killing five and injuring eleven. The incident was labeled a massacre by newspapers, inflaming anger towards British rule. The soldiers were tried but not convicted. The […]
[ad_1] The Halloween Massacre refers to the reorganization of President Ford’s cabinet in 1975, the Angolan Civil War in 1992, and an urban legend about a psychic predicting mass murders on Halloween. The term is often compared to the “Saturday Night Massacre” during the Watergate scandal. The Halloween Massacre, as far as American politics is […]
[ad_1] The Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929 was an unsuccessful attempt by Al Capone’s gang to eliminate Bugs Moran’s gang in Chicago. The massacre led to Capone’s downfall and racial tensions were evident between the Italian and mixed Irish and German gangs. The victims were lured to a warehouse and killed by two plainclothes men […]
