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Edward Snowden, born on this day in 1983, is an American whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the NSA in 2013 when he was working as a CIA employee, exposing multiple governments' widespread surveillance programs.
Image: Edward Snowden speaks about the NSA leaks in an interview with reporter Glenn Greenwald at the hotel The Mira Hong Kong. [Wikipedia]
On this day in 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were assassinated by white supremacists in Philadelphia, Mississippi. No one was held accountable for the Freedom Summer Murders until 2005.
Image: An FBI "Missing" poster, depicting (from left to right) Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner
The Herrin Massacre began on this day in 1922 in Illinois when striking coal miners looted ammunition and guns from a hardware store and laid siege to their mine, filled with strikebreakers, killing twenty-three people.
Image: "Herrin Massacre", by Paul Cadmus, depicting the violence in Herrin Cemetery
On this day in 1877, ten members of the Molly Maguires, a secretive Irish-American society associated with militant labor struggle, were executed in Pennsylvania on the basis of dubious evidence from an undercover Pinkerton agent.
Image: A sketch depicting the public execution of the Molly Maguires, unknown author.
On this day in 1866, the U.S. government put up approximately 46 million acres of public land for sale in southern states, with government officials de facto excluding black people from the process so that whites could homestead it first.