August 12th in Arkansas history

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

1932: Voters of Arkansas make populist Democrat Hattie Carraway first woman elected to U.S. Senate.

1959: Black students admitted to Little Rock High School, Arkansas.



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1591: Death of Dick, a cat, in Leith, Scotland.

1658: First police force in North America is organized in New Amsterdam (New York).

1665: In London during the great plague, Samuel Pepys writes in his diary: "The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in."

1676: Wampanoag tribe leader Metacom, known as "King Philip" to the English, is shot to death by white settlers, and his wife and child sold to West Indian slave traders. The previous year, his brother's wife, Squaw Sachem of Pocasset (known to the English as Wetamoo), was cornered and shot by the English while she was trying to escape. After the English arrested and poisoned Sachem's husband--Wamsutta, the chief of the Wampanoag--she helped raise a guerrilla army of 20,000 to fight the white intruders. After killing Squaw Sachem, the Christian civilizers mounted her head on a pole for a display in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1812: Lady Ludd "leads" women in Knottingly, England, in riots over high bread prices.

1843: First North American phalanx founded, commune based on the ideas of Charles Fourier.

1881: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America formed.

1890: Mississippi constitutional convention begins systematic exclusion of blacks from politics.

1898: Coal company guards kill seven, wound 40 miners trying to stop scabs, Virden, Illinois.

1932: Voters of Arkansas make populist Democrat Hattie Carraway first woman elected to U.S. Senate.

1953: U.S.S.R. explodes first H-bomb.

1959: Black students admitted to Little Rock High School, Arkansas.

1970: Postal reform measure signed, creating an independent U.S. Postal Service, thus relinquishing government control of the U.S. mails after almost two centuries.

1972: Colombian Bari Indian leader Maurico Cobaira Bobrichora is killed by white settlers on the Venezuelan border.

1978: Forty arrested for scaling fence at nuclear plant site, Shoreham, Long Island, N.Y.

1978: South Korean police storm YH Industrial Wig factory sit-in. One hundred eighty arrested and one killed.

1982: Twelve arrested in sea blockade of first Trident submarine at Hood Canal, Washington.

1982: Members of 7th International March beaten by police for leafleting arms factory workers, San Fernando, Spain.

1983: Chilean air force commander refuses to help government repress protests.

1990: Violence erupts between Xhosa and Zulu factions in South Africa.

1992: Anarchist composer and musician John Cage dies, New York City.

1995: Thousands demonstrate in Philadelphia and other cities in support of journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal (on death row since 1982) in the largest anti-death penalty demonstrations in the U.S. to date.