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Originally Posted by John_W
I think the 1968 riots after M L King assassination was far more national than the Rodney King riots, those were mostly an LA thing.
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I agree. I was in the Maryland Army National Guard and we were called to active duty for about ten days at the Fifth Regiment Armory in downtown Baltimore. I could tell some stories about that experience but I will not.
Although it happened a couple years before I was born I would suggest the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Fortunately the A-bomb was developed and used ending the war before possibly millions more were killed in battle.
Kennedy’s assassination is another big one.
St Helena’s erupting, the Alaskan earthquake and AIDS come to mind as well.