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On this day in 1891, armed Tennessee Coal Miners freed hundreds of prisoners who were being used as strikebreaking convict labor. The raid took place in the context of the "Coal Creek War", a militant labor uprising in the early 1890s.
On this day in 1995, workers at the JJ Fast Food Distribution plant in Tottenham, London walked out to demand the reinstatement of their elected shop steward, beginning a several-month strike at the factory.
![Relatives grieve at a funeral after the Sikh riots in Delhi. Over three days in Nov 1984, 350 Sikhs had lost their lives here. [gulfnews.com]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/sikhPogroms.jpg)
On this day in 1984, the Sikh Massacre began in India, four days of state-assisted anti-Sikh pogroms that killed 3,350 - 30,000 people, displacing tens of thousands more.
Image: Relatives grieve at a funeral after the Sikh riots in Delhi. Over three days in Nov 1984, 350 Sikhs had lost their lives here. [gulfnews.com]