This Day in History
1777: Jefferson gets Virginia to make "sodomy" punishable by castration.

1874: As unemployed workers demonstrate in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, mounted police officers charge into the crowd, indiscriminately clubbing adults and children, leaving hundreds of casualties. Police commissioner Abram Duryee boasts, (quote): "It was the most glorious sight I have ever seen..." Except for the 1930s, the U.S. never knew a more serious economic catastrophe than the depression of 1873 to 1877. The four years left three million workers unemployed. Those with jobs face wage cuts, while the jobless go hungry. In the winter of 1873, 900 people starved to death, and 3,000 deserted their infants on doorsteps. Today's Tompkins Square Park demonstration is part of a wave of unemployed parades and bread riots across the nation. In Chicago, 20,000 people march. Even under police attack, workers in New York, Omaha, and Cincinnati refuse to disperse.

1957: Hungary: Death penalty enacted for strikers as government calls for order and quiet.
- From workingforchange.com

I'm suprised by Jefferson. Usually he was a reasonable man of science....not religion. I never heard about this and I wonder what his reasoning was.