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Events on Thursday 6 December 1928 1
1928Banana MassacreColombian troops fire on striking United Fruit workersColombian soldiers opened fire on striking United Fruit Company workers gathered in the town square of Cienaga. Estimates of the dead range from dozens to more than a thousand. The massacre is fictionalised in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.