Dark Day
Thousands of hungry men descended on Washington in droves in the summer of 1932 to agitate for money they had been promised for service in World War I to be released early. In the depths of the depression, with nothing and nothing to lose, they occupied the city, squatting in vacant buildings and building shantytowns. On July 28, the US Army, led by Douglas McArthur, evicted the so-called Bonus Army. President Hoover had cited national security and later released a report that blamed the Bonus Army for a starting a riot that required troops and that also blamed them for the fires that burned the encampments.
On July 28, 1851, photographer Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski captured the sun going dark in a total solar eclipse.
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