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Topic: Tongue River, Battle of the

An unemployed tinsmith, Emil Max Hödel, tries …

Years: 1878 - 1878
May

An unemployed tinsmith, Emil Max Hödel, tries to assassinate the German Emperor on May 11.

Nine days later, Bismarck introduces in the Reichstag a law for the suppression of socialist meetings, clubs, and publications, but the Reichstag defeats the Bismarck law on May 24 by a vote of 251 to 57.