1861 – Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer, who was in charge of United States forces at Fort Barrancas, repelled a group of men intending to take the fort. Some historians note that this could be considered the first shots fired by United States forces in the Civil War.
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1993 – The Brown’s Chicken massacre, a mass murder at a Brown’s Chicken restaurant in Palatine, Illinois, occurred when two assailants robbed the Brown’s Chicken restaurant and then proceeded to murder seven employees.
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