In the French Revolutionary Calendar, today, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 is: Septidi 17 Fructidor, year 221 of the revolutionary era—the seventh day of décade 35 of this year, and the seventeenth day of Fructidor, the twelfth month in the French Republican Calendar. Fête du jour (Feast day of the people): Cardière (Teasel: Dipsacus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Dipsacaceae. The members of this genus are known as teasel or teazel or teazle. The genus includes about 15 species of tall herbaceous biennial plants growing to 1–2.5 meters tall.) 1783. America Revolutionary War. The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1797. Atlantic Ocean. Liverpool slave ship Thomas taken over and sailed by African slaves for 42 days. 1838. USA. Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery. 1855. Nebraska. American General Harney and 700 American soldiers attack a Sioux village and kill at least 100 men, women and children. 1891. Texas. African-American cotton pickers organize and strike in Lee County, Texas, against miserably low wages and other injustices, including a growers’ arrangement with local law enforcement to round up blacks on vagrancy charges, then force them to work off their fines on select plantations. During September, white mobs put down the strike, killing 15 strikers in the process. 1928. Chicago. 300 musicians working in Chicago movie houses strike to protest their impending replacement by talking movies. 1967. Vietnam. National elections are held in South Vietnam. With 80 percent of eligible voters participating, Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president with Nguyen Cao Ky as his vice-president, the pair have received only 35 percent of the vote. 1991. North Carolina. Twenty-five workers die, unable to escape a fire at the Imperial Poultry processing plant in Hamlet, N.C. Managers had locked fire doors to prevent the theft of chicken nuggets. The plant had operated for 11 years without a single safety inspection.
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