1928

The St. Francis Dam, north of Los Angeles, failed, sending over 12 billion gallons of water into San Francisquito Canyon and killing over 400 people.

1930

Mohandas Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, began his 24-day, 240 mile “Salt March” to the Indian village of Dandi as an act of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the salt tax levied by colonial Britain.

2021

The city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over Floyd’s murder by police.