THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

THE NEW MEXICO PENITENTIARY RIOT, WHICH TOOK PLACE ON FEBRUARY 2 AND FEBRUARY 3, 1980 The New Mexico Penitentiary Riot, which took place on February 2 and February 3, 1980 in the state's maximum security prison south of Santa Fe, was one of the most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional system: 33 inmates died and more than 200 inmates were treated for injuries. None of the 12 guards taken hostage were killed but seven were treated for injuries caused by repeated beatings and rapes. This location was used by Adam Sandler’s movie The Longest Yard and the water tower still bears the fictional name, Allenville. (Note: it has also been used for other movies and is used for storing movie props today) These are the areas that are considered to be the most haunted in New Mexico. The accounts start in 1981 and have continued into the present day. They have been seen by corrections officers as well as members of the New Mexico National Guard. The most active...

The Public Execution of the President of Liberia William Tolbert and his Cabinet, 1980. 10 years before Liberia's President Samuel Doe met his fate - also a gruesome televised torture and murder - then known as Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, he had presided over the public execution of members of the Cabinet he had just overthrown. In 1847, with the support of US President Monroe and subsequent US Governments uneasy with the growing population of freed slaves in America, emancipated former African-American slaves settled in Africa and declared the territory the Independent republic of Liberia. Between 1847 and 1980 the State of Liberia was dominated by the minority Americo-Liberians who then marginalized the majority native Liberians with whom they had uneasy relations with, viewing them as an 'inferior' race and treating them much the same as the ex-slaves had been treated in America.  Brutal Americo-Liberian State repression, plantation quasi-slavery, economic and soci...