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Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.
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Astor Place Riot
1849 theatre-related riot in Manhattan
The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than 120 people injured. It was the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in Manhattan, which generally pitted…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Astor Opera House
Former theater in Manhattan, New York
The Astor Opera House, also known as the Astor Place Opera House and later the Astor Place Theatre, was an opera house in Lower Manhattan, New York City, on Lafayette Street between Astor Place and East 8th Street. Designed by Isaiah Rogers (1800–1869), in the Classical Revival…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Manhattan
Borough and county in New York, US
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Edwin Forrest
American actor (1806–1872)
Edwin Forrest was a nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
William Macready
19th-century English actor
William Charles Macready was an English stage actor. The son of Irish actor-manager William Macready the Elder he emerged as a leading West End performer during the Regency era.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
May 10
Day of the year
May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 235 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)