This Day in History
1641: James City, Virginia, passes law that if any Indian commits a crime, the first Indian apprehended must pay penalty, with life if necessary.

1833: Act passed making it unlawful for any Indian to remain within the boundaries of the state of Florida.

1864: Kit Carson's patrol kills 11 Navajo in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Territory.

1876: Jack London, novelist and socialist, born.

1928: Police raid IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Hall, Walsenburg, Colorado.

1928: Police seize 800 copies of the lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" by Radcliffe Hall.

1928: Ruth Snyder first woman to die in electric chair.

1948: Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

1962: President Kennedy signs Executive Order 10988, guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively.

1971: "All in the Family" premiere on CBS featured first toilet flush on TV. Its depiction of a working class family would never be approved on modern network TV; wrong advertising demographics.

2002: "Refusenik" movement begins when 53 Israeli soldiers sign ad refusing to serve in West Bank or Gaza Strip.