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2012 Event - Riot police are sent out to greet thousands of protesters in Madrid, Spain, who demand that the government quit

2012 Event - Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency

2011 Event - Dozens of people are arrested as riot police shut down Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland Rallies, offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement

2011 Event - A near riot breaks out at the Beijing Apple Store as the Apple iPad2 goes on sale in the People's Republic of China

2007 Death - Kevin DuBrow, singer, lead vocalist, Quiet Riot, heavy metal band 1973 - 2007, dies in Las Vegas, Nevada at age 52

1993 Death - Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69

1992 Event - Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert

1991 Event - Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis

1991 Event - Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die

1986 Event - 150 killed during race riot in Karachi

1986 Event - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel

1985 Event - Race riot in Birmingham England

1985 Event - Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot

1985 Death - 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match

1984 Event - 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India

1984 Event - Riot in Tunis kills over 100

1982 Event - Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire

1982 Death - Randy Rhoads, rocker, guitarist, songwriter, producer, studied classical guitar, member of Quiet Riot, played with Ozzy Ozbourne, dies in an air crash at 25

1981 Event - Race riot in London area of Brixton

1980 Event - Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured

1979 Event - Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest

1978 Event - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40

1977 Event - Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"

1976 Event - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die

1975 Event - Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage

1974 Event - Race riot in Boston due to "busing"

1972 Event - 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk

1971 Event - 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison

1971 Event - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee

1971 Event - Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City)

1970 Event - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy

1970 Event - Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot

1969 Event - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida

1969 Event - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days

1969 Event - Race riot in Hartford Connecticut

1968 Event - Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock

1968 Event - Race riot in Miami, Florida

1968 Event - Race Riot in Gary, Indiana

1968 Event - Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed

1968 Event - Student riot in Nanterre near Paris

1967 Event - Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)

1967 Event - 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)

1967 Event - 23 die in Newark race riot

1967 Event - Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested

1967 Event - Race riot in Buffalo New York (200 arrested)

1967 Event - Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested

1967 Event - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes

1966 Event - Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois

1966 Event - Race riot in Lansing, Michigan

1966 Event - Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot

1966 Event - Race riot in Chicago

1964 Event - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)

1964 Event - Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey

1964 Event - Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot

1964 Event - Race riot in Rochester, New York

1964 Event - Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine

1964 Event - Separatists riot in Quebec

1963 Event - Greek and Turks riot in Cyprus

1963 Event - Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot

1963 Event - Race riot in Birmingham Alabama

1961 Event - Racial riot at University of Georgia

1960 Event - Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die

1960 Event - Riot due to school integration in New Orleans

1960 Death - Richard Cromwell, actor (Jezebel, Riot Squad), dies of cancer at 50

1960 Event - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida

1960 Event - Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI vs. England

1958 Event - French settlers riot against French army in Algeria

1958 Event - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits

1957 Event - Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy

1956 Birthday - Randy Rhoads, born in Santa Monica, California, rocker, guitarist, songwriter, producer, studied classical guitar, member of Quiet Riot, played with Ozzy Ozbourne

1956 Event - Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot

1955 Birthday - Kevin DuBrow, born in Hollywood, California, singer, lead vocalist, Quiet Riot, heavy metal band 1973 - 2007

1955 Event - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal

1953 Birthday - Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaica, reggae bassist, Sly and Robbie-DJ Riot

1951 Event - Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest

1949 Event - Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York

1949 Event - Philadelphia fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners

1946 Event - Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)

1946 Event - 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay

1946 Event - 2 killed and 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee

1945 Event - A riot ensued in San Francisco while the city was celebrating the end of WW II

1943 Event - Anti Jewish riot in Rome

1943 Event - Race riot in Harlem New York City

1943 Event - Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead

1943 Event - Detroit race riot kills 35

1943 Event - Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam

1943 Event - Riot at Mobile Alabama shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers

1942 Event - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit

1940 Event - Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"

1921 Event - Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 61 people killed

1919 Event - Race riot at Elaine Arkansas

1919 Event - Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured

1919 Event - Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded)

1919 Event - Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed

1919 Event - Monarchist riot in Portugal

1918 Event - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917

1918 Event - Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed)

1918 Event - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed)

1918 Event - Food riot in Amsterdam

1917 Event - 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot

1917 Event - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed)

1917 Event - Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed

1909 Event - Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment

1908 Event - Race riot in Springfield Illinois

1906 Event - 3,000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia

1902 Event - Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25

1901 Event - Anti semitic riot in Budapest

1900 Event - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed

1898 Event - Race riot in Wilmington North Carolina (8 blacks killed)

1894 Event - 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn

1891 Event - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname

1886 Event - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen

1876 Event - Race riot at Cainhoy South Carolina (5 whites and 1 black killed)

1876 Event - Race riot in Charleston SC

1876 Event - Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed

1866 Event - Race riot in New Orleans

1864 Event - Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS---

1864 Event - Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS---

1861 Event - Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN

1837 Event - Riot in New York over high price of flour

1801 Event - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews

1796 Event - Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam

1780 Event - Anti-Catholic riot in London, 100s die

1754 Event - Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam

1752 Event - This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives

1748 Event - Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed

1714 Event - People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands

1189 Death - Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England













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