Thursday, May 21, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY


Former San Francisco supervisor Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on May 21, 1979. The verdict was considered outrageously lenient by San Francisco's gay community, and sparked conflicts between protestors and police that become known as the White Night Riots.

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