On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff's posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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This one felt like a gimme, what other country actually exports that sheer amount of stuff. Even if you didn't guess China, the US bases it's economy more on oil. Germany, Japan, South Korea all have cars as a bigger share of their exports and they're too small in terms of exports anyway. I can't think of any Chinese car brands that are big in exports like BMW, Porsche, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Hyundai, etc. I wonder if that'll change with EVs.hmm... maybe it's... *typing* t-a-i-w-a-n
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Yeah this is probably the easiest one I've ever done. The sheer size of the economy meant that the only two nations that could fit the bill was China and the US, and I was extremely skeptical that the US's third largest vegetable product export was teathe other spoiler
Interestingly, this is the first time I've seen the "Weapons" category in the tradle. Likely because there aren't many nations on earth that (legally) manufacture weapons for export (I think, anyway)I think it's cause almost all the world's weapon exports are made up of only like 10 countries
Huh
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Silly me thinking >!South Korea!< had a $3 trillion market cap
it also had a much higher proportion of it's exports as cars, just like all the other big exporters like Japan, Germany, France. I don't think China has broken into car exports yet but they might with EVs, who knows.