1915: Joe Hill executed
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On November 19th, 1915, IWW organizer, cartoonist, songwriter and popular educator from Gävle, Sweden, Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, better known as Joe Hill, was executed by firing squad in Salt Lake City, Utah. His state murder was only one of many official and unofficial lynchings of union organizers across the US during the period.