Timeline Monday 20 April 1914

Events on Monday 20 April 1914 1

• 1914 Ludlow Massacre National Guardsmen attack a striking miners' tent colony in Colorado During a long coal strike, Colorado National Guard troops and mine guards attacked a tent colony of striking miners and their families at Ludlow, killing around twenty people including women and children. The massacre triggered a ten-day armed uprising by miners across the region. It became a defining episode in American labor history.