In late April and early May 1992, Los Angeles was going through riots caused by a jury composed almost entirely of whites acquitted the four police officers who appeared on recordings taken while those same police officers appeared giving a beating to A black taxi driver named Rodney King, King ran away from the police. Thousands of people in Los Angeles, California, mainly young African-Americans and Latinos, joined in what was frequently presented as a racial and ethnic disturbance, carrying out acts of illegals such as robbery, arson and homicides. In total, between 50 and 60 people died during the riots. and there were 2000 injured.
Charles Milles Manson was a famous American criminal and musician, known for directing what is known as "The Manson Family" a group of followers of Manson. In 1971, he was convicted of conspiracy to murder seven people: all carried out by group members, who followed Manson's instructions. His followers kill different people at other times. Manson believed in what he called the same "Helter Skelter", a term borrowed from the song Helter Skelter by the band The Beatles. Manson interpreted that the song speaks of a hypothetical racial war between blacks and targets that, according to him, approached. The title of the song written with blood on the scene of one of the crimes ordered by Manson. He believed that the murders could help precipitate this racial war. In the United States, Charles Manson has been mythologized as an emblem of madness, violence and the macabre. Before the murders, he was an underground musician in Los Angeles, after M...
The Berlin Wall was a security wall that formed part of the inter-German border from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. It is the best-known symbol of the Cold War and the division of Germany. It was a 45-kilometer wall dividing the city of Berlin in two, while another 115 kilometers surrounded its western part isolating it from the GDR. That is to say, the Wall constituted the state border between the GDR and the enclave of West Berlin. It was one of the best-known symbols of the Cold War and the separation of Germany. The exact number of people who died trying to cross the border through the wall is unknown. It is said that the balance was more than 200 people, including 33 who died as a result of the detonation of mines. The Berlin Wall fell on the night of Thursday 9 to Friday 10 November 1989, 28 years after its construction.
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