MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · May 30
THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 30
May 30 in history
1925 — The May 30th shootings
30 May 1925 — British-officered police fire into a crowd protesting a Japanese mill’s killing of a worker: eleven dead on Nanking Road. The empire-wide strike wave that follows hands the Canton government a mass movement — nationalism is now the strongest force on this map.
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