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As a result of these riots, Singapore is the only country to have ever gained its independence against its will (it was thrown out of Malaysia).
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In 1974 the Cleveland Indians held a Ten Cent Beer Night as a promotion. Fans got so drunk and rowdy that the game had to be called off early.
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In 2006 protestors in Hungary hot-wired a Soviet tank that was on display at a memorial and drove it into a group of riot police
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During the New Mexico State Penitentiary riots, prison gangs took over and then took five hours to cut through the bars of the protective custody unit (which housed snitches and sex offenders). After five hours they dragged their fellow prisoners out and brutally tortured, beheaded, and burned them. Although the police could have let them out through a back door they didn't because negotiations between the prisoners and the police had been stalled.
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In 1896, at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II, nearly 1,400 people died because of riots started due to rumors about the free beer having run out.
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