Often significant days in history pass with little attention. Today in labor history, January 8, 1811, is one such day. On that day Charles Deslonde, an enslaved sugar laborer in the New Orleans territory led what became one of the largest slave revolts in American history.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. That was the day the President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act. The act allowed the federal government to guarantee up to one-and-a-half billion dollars in loans to aid the failing Chrysler corporation.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1941. That was the day that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech that would become one of the defining moments of his presidency. The world was embroiled in the Second World War.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1933.

That was the day that construction on one of the most iconic landmarks in the United States—the Golden Gate Bridge, began.

The bridge was built during the height of the Great Depression.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1965. That was the day that 8,000 social workers went on strike in New York City. For twenty-eight days that bitter cold January these workers marched on the picket lines. They were members of AFSCME District Council 37 union and the Social Service Employees Union.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1917. That was the day the trial against labor leader Tom Mooney began.

Mooney stood accused of detonating a bomb at the "Preparedness Day," parade in San Francisco on July 22, 1916.

On this day in Labor History the year was 2006.

That was the day that a morning explosion at the Sago mine in West Virginia claimed the lives of twelve miners.

The federal Mine Safety and Health administration had cited the mine more than two hundred times the year before the disaster.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1831.

That was the day that William Lloyd Garrison published the first edition of “The Liberator.”

The purpose of the newspaper was to push for the end of slavery in the United States.