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Events on Monday 17 July 1944 1
1944Port Chicago disasterMunitions explosion kills 320 at a California naval baseMunitions being loaded onto a cargo ship exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine, killing 320 people, most of them African American sailors. Weeks later, 50 Black sailors who refused to go back to unsafe loading work were convicted of mutiny. The case drew attention to racial segregation in the US Navy.