Born on this day-fed. income taxes, min.wage, Thoreau, GW Carver

[underpants]

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17214#3

July 12
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1450: Jack Cade, leader of rebellion of workers, executed and his head left on London Bridge.

1810: Members of shoemakers' union face trial in New York City for striking to win wage increases.

1817: Henry Thoreau, author of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," born, Massachusetts.

1839: Cherokee Act of Union brings together the Eastern and Western Cherokee, split apart the previous winter by the deadly Trail of Tears, to form a unified tribal government.

1864: Birth of George Washington Carver.

1892: Pennsylvania state militia breaks Carnegie steel strike.

1895: Birth of inventor, polymath, R. Buckminster Fuller.

1904: Forty-five thousand Chicago slaughterhouse workers strike.

1909: Working for the man: U.S. Congress authorizes income tax (16th amendment).

1917: In order to break up a copper mine strike, several thousand vigilantes round up 1,186 IWW members in Bisbee, Arizona; they are "deported" into the Sonoran desert. Patriotism and support for the war effort were cited as reasons for the action.

1933: Congress passes first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).

1951: Adlai Stevenson calls National Guard to stop rioting in Cicero, Illinois. Mob of 3,500 tries to keep an African-American family from moving into the city.

1966: Racial riots erupt in Chicago and Cleveland.

1980: Cree of northern Quebec file suit claiming Canadian and Quebec governments failed to honor James Bay and North Quebec Agreement. The James Bay I hydroelectric project, built in the 1970s, flooded tens of thousands of square miles of Cree and Inuit lands.

1985: Salvadoran guerillas liberate 149 prisoners.

2000: One minute of silence to protest terrorism is widely observed, Greece.

[ret5hd]

1. Re: 1933: Congress passes first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour) ...

Does anyone have a way to calculate this to todays inflation adjusted dollars?

[underpants]

2. $4.47 -this says

What cost $.33 in 1933 would cost $4.47 in 2005.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2005 and 1933,
they would cost you $.33 and $0.02 respectively.

Do you want to do another calculation?

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

$4.79 here
http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateCPI.html