July 28, 1932 –
(More things your teacher never told you …)
Federal troops under the order of President Hoover forcibly dispersed the “Bonus Army” of (17,000 World War I veterans) who had gathered in Washington, D.C. on June 17th to demand money they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.
The troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and Major George S. Patton are ordered to charge into the veterans and were sent to destroy the temporary shacks in the Bonus Army’s camps in Hooverville on the Anacostia Flats forcing the marchers out. By the end of the day hundreds of veterans were injured, and several were killed.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 