What the records say
- When
- 6 Aug 1855
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 38.26° N, 85.77° W
- Description
- elections-based riot
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bloody Monday: Protestant mobs attack Irish and German Catholics on an election day in Louisville, Kentucky, causing 22 deaths”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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