Their office comes under siege. To help the poor in Toronto, Ontario Premier Hepburn promises to buy 20,000 mattresses and increase the food voucher at government expense. Federal Republican newspaper employees surrender to military and are taken to jail, where mob breaks in and kills eight while maiming three others. No-one is punished for these murders. Cut in taxes not corresponded by cuts in spending.
Japan bans emigration to Canada at the request of Canadian government.
U.S. tariffs of 1832 and 1842 repealed in favor of lower evenly applied revenue raising duties, introducing era of free trade with Europe. Milton Friedman, free market economist and author of Free to Choose, born.