and then in the words of the sheriff all hell broke loose and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history begins welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 major historical events school didn't teach you about when the news reporters asked me why didn't I get up I said uh history had me glued to the Sea for this list we'll be looking at Famous and important moments in the world's history that Educators either touched upon ly or completely ignored leaving us to discover them on the Internet
what other events did schools fail to teach us about let us know below number 10 the mauo massacre in 1966 Mao zedong's power in China was threatened after the disastrous Great Leap Forward that caused a massive famine so he initiated the cultural revolution to renew the Communist spirit and remove infiltrators ma launches an attack on his internal political opponents saying there are bureaucrats every everywhere who want capitalism back the people ought to display placards and expose these class enemies and their bouris thinking this caused youths to form groups like The Red Guard who shut down
schools ransacked religious places and slaughtered any perceived enemies of mau's vision such as party officials and intellectuals Mao sends his red guards into a war of symbols he considers China's traditions and culture to be anti-socialist and seeks to destroy them while artart and entertainment believed to be twoo Western were banned including work by William Shakespeare the cultural revolution eventually finished in 1976 with Ma's passing but not before it destroyed the country's economy took the lives of up to 2 million people and forced around 20 million to flee the Carnage Chairman Mao instigated now is the
Rea generation 70 I hope that they reflect they regret that we exam what should we prevent this kind human tragedy happen again number nine the Wall Street attack before 9/11 the worst terror attack in the United States happened in 1920 during midday in September a horsedrawn carriage rode down Wall Street New York it stopped outside the US assay office and opposite the JP Morgan and Company building on September 16th 1920 as the bells of Trinity Church told and hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for their noon time break an explosion struck outside the headquarters
of JP Morgan and Company the area was packed as workers went to get lunch but then the driver vanished moments later the wagon filled with dynamite exploded causing shrapnel to fly everywhere the Carnage was unlike anything America's largest city had ever seen and was splashed across headlines for days at least 38 people and the horse perished from the attack with 143 seriously injured no group or individual came forward to claim responsibility while authorities had many theories on who was responsible no formal arrest ever happened and it remains unsolved and in the end no one was
ever formally convicted of this heinous crime today the only evidence that remains from that tragic event are from these shrapnel marks on the facade of JP Morgan's old building number eight the Iranian Revolution after years of Iran being reigned by Shah Muhammad Raza pavi and aligning himself with the West tensions came to a head in 1978 daily it has become more difficult to look at the scope of opposition to the Sha of Iran and still see his monarchy surviving the Ayatollah are committed to the ouer of the Shaw and nothing less than that supporters of
cleric rala who had been in Exile believed he was routinely slandered by the country's press on top of this opposition against Pav's rule blamed his secret police for the cinema Rex fire that killed 477 people the protest of the masses turns into open violence Teran is Ablaze the military intervenes these mixed with the SHA using the military to supplant his Rule and viciously attacking opponents caused many people to protest the monarchy By 1979 this led to pavi fleeing and the return of ayatollahi who became the first supreme leader of Iran turning the country more politically
conservative during his 10-year Reign he implemented his ideas of an Islamic revolution with uncompromising Vigor and turned Iran into a theocracy some believe this event inspired several uprisings in the Middle East number seven The Stonewall riots being part of the lgbtq plus community in 1960s New York was rough the police regularly targeted the then illegal group there were no instructions except put them out of business the first police officer that came in with our group said the place is under arrest when people attended lgbtq Plus bars or clubs many of which were operated by organized
criminals the cops would raid them and arrest those inside often Taking Liberties with detainees by June 1969 the situation hit a boiling point at the Stonewall Inn when the police raided the bar with years of discrimination violent attacks by the cops and inspired by the Civil Rights Movement the lgbtq plus community and supporters be began rioting which lasted for several days in the Civil Rights Movement we ran from the police in the peace Movement we ran from the police that night the police ran from us the lowliest of the low and it was fantastic this
sparked lgbtq plus leaders to petition for rights by 1970 the first Pride events happened in New York Chicago Los Angeles and San Francisco G Liberation Front was born out of the the ashes of Stonewall uh Gay Liberation Front is literally why we have everything we have today number six Bacon's Rebellion way before the American Revolution against Great Britain's Reign came to be the seeds of rebellion were sown in Virginia in 1676 the colonist Nathaniel Bacon was livid at Governor William Berkeley his cousin for the high taxes and his lack of support for attacking a Native
American settlement as such he organized a makeshift militia formed of white and black people to lay Siege to Berkeley within Jamestown Bacon's forces caused the governor to flee as they set Jamestown a flame by the time England sent a Navy to battle the Rebellion bacon had already passed from denter with a lack of leadership Berkeley's newly engorged forces defeated the militia but the governor's reputation was left in tatters number five the first bus refuser while Rosa Parks is credited for ushering in the civil rights movement in the US after refusing to give up her bus
seat to a white person in 1955 CU I didn't think I should have to get up I had already paid my fair and I'm sure he didn't pay any more than I did there was someone before who made a similar stand 9 months before this Monumental event 15-year-old student claudet culvin refused to move on a bus for white passengers in Montgomery Alabama this led to her arrest and being convicted on multiple charges this though har you to me hand hand were pushing me down on one shoulder and so John the truth hand were pushing me
down on another shoulder and between these two historical women iconic women I could not move culvin was also involved in the court case that forced Alabama to end bus segregation but even further back in 1854 in New York Elizabeth Jennings Graham was forcibly removed from a White's only street car as they rode he saw a police officer and flagged him down the officer came aboard and ignored what Elizabeth had to say throwing her to the ground and ruining her Sunday Best so she took the Third Avenue railroad company to court and won causing the firm
to desegregate its street cars number four the English Civil War while England still has a monarchy that hasn't always been the case Charles the First clashed with Parliament several times Charles distrusted parliaments absolutely and had governed the country for long periods without recourse to one with Catholics facing off against Protestants and several skirmishes adding to the fire and Charles's religious loyalty questioned things escalated when he entered the House of Commons and tried and failed to arrest opponents in 1642 the attempted arrest was a tragic F the five members had long since escaped by boat for
the first time a reigning monarch entered the House of Commons only to find himself humiliated this kicked off the first of three civil wars in England Scotland and Wales between the royalists and the parliamentarians in 1649 a captur Charles was tried for treason found guilty and executed by 1651 the parliamentarians had won the final battle in the Civil War Charles died bravely on the scaffold impeccable courage but that's no more than would be expected from any gentleman facing the block with Oliver Cromwell in charge and later his son Richard the Commonwealth of England reigned until
1660 when Charles thei reestablished the monarchy number three The Armenian genocide in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire the Young Turk Revolution happened in 1908 after years of Christian Armenians being targeted by the country they believed this was a positive Turning Point ethnic groups within the Ottoman Empire were pushing separatist agendas this rise of nationalism contributed towards the breakdown of the so-called Millette system in which religious communities under ottoman rule were allowed a degree of autonomy sadly it wasn't as nations were engrossed by World War I in 1915 the Empire suffered heavy losses as
such they shifted the blame onto Armenians authorities began arresting and either deporting or executing Armenians for [Music] [Music] treachery then groups were taken from their homes and forced to walk through the Syrian desert without supplies causing many to perish before they reached the terrible conditions at concentration camps by 1916 there are estimates that at least 1 million Armenians were massacred in the genocide number two the Trail of Tears ever since Europeans colonized the US Native Americans have experienced many atrocities in 1829 a gold rush commenced in Georgia then operated by the Cherokee People this caused
the government to implement forced displacement of native nations so they could take over the resourcer ground in the Deep South in 1829 Andrew Jackson was elected US president he believed that Native Americans had no rights to their land and began proceedings to remove the Cherokee from the southern states starting in 1830 and ending in 1850 100,000 people of the Cherokee Mogi seol chiasa and chocked on nations were forcefully taken from their settlements and taken on a journey to a new place west of the Mississippi known as Indian Territory up to a third of the 15,000
Cherokee who were forced to make the journey died on the way which is one reason that Journey came to be known as the Trail of Tears many traveled hundreds of miles and thousands didn't survive another atrocity was the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890 the US Army slaughtered upwards of 150 people of the laca nation in South Dakota we've been living ever since it happened with a lot of sorrow and anger so I'm looking for a path from victimhood to being Victors before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to
get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into settings and switch on your notifications number one the Tulsa Race massacre in May of 1921 the neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa Oklahoma was thriving so much so that it was deemed Black Wall Street but the segregated city was about to erupt in horrifying violence when black teenager dick Roland was falsely arrested the newspaper story uh is published around 3:00 by 4:00 and a small group of white
men have began to assemble around and Mill around the courthouse after the white and black communities faced off outside the courthouse it sparked into a fight however the Greenwood Community was outnumbered several white residents were deputized handed weapons and attacked Greenwood violently for over 18 hours I remember the people coming in white people coming into our house with torches setting the curtains on fire and setting our house on fire on top of buildings being set a flame as many as 300 people were killed with 800 injured while thousands of people lost their homes the Red
Cross recorded more than 300 people had been killed newspapers listed almost 100 deaths but City officials put the death toll at 36 in the immediate aftermath the event was suppressed by the media only in recent years has it become more welln