Trial of seven Mohawks for demonstrating on international bridge between U.S. and Canada. Tribal status is finally granted nine years later, but without most of their land. Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated by U.S.-supported rightists, San Salvador, El Salvador. 146 immigrant sweatshop workers killed in the Triangle Shirt Waist fire, New York City.
Incident leads to widespread reforms in working conditions.
Afterwards, a white organizer, Viola Liuzzo, is murdered by Klansmen while driving demonstrators between Selma and Montgomery. She had come to Selma from Michigan to join the protest. First official notice to Indians from U.S. government that all Indians must move west of Mississippi River. U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ruling that an Oklahoma law permitting the dismissal of teachers for speaking out on gay rights is unconstitutional. 20,000 Buddhists in silent march for peace, Hue, South Vietnam.