White Night riots
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title:
White Night riots
text:
The White Night riots were a series of violent events sparked by an announcement of a lenient sentencing of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and of Harvey Milk, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors who was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. The events took place on the night of May 21, 1979, in San Francisco. Earlier that day White had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible conviction
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1979 riots in San Francisco, California, US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Night_riots
date created:
2004-04-17T05:35:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T11:53:45Z
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