Today in History: May 19, West Virginia’s Matewan Massacre

Tamara Ceaikovski

Today in history: On May 19, 1920, ten people were killed in a gun battle between coal miners, who were led by a local police chief, and a group of private security guards hired to evict them for joining a union in Matewan, West Virginia. Also on this date: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded at the Tower of London after being convicted of adultery. In 1883, William Cody held the first of his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” shows in Omaha, Nebraska. In

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