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July 23
July 23, 1846 - Protesting slavery and the U.S. involvement in the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his $1 poll tax and was put in jail by the Concord, Massachusetts, town constable. The experience moved him to write Civil Disobedience.
July 23 Anarchist Alexander Berkman shoots and stabs but fails to kill steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in an effort to avenge the Homestead massacre 18 days earlier, in which nine strikers were killed. Berkman also tried to use what was, in effect, a suicide bomb, but it didn’t detonate - 1892
Aluminum Workers Int’l Union merges with The United Brick & Clay Workers of America to form Aluminum, Brick & Clay Workers - 1981
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