78-year old 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel, was attacked on this date in 2007 in the Argent Hotel in San Francisco, by 22-year old Eric Hunt of Sussex County, New Jersey. Hunt dragged Mr. Wiesel from a hotel elevator after the Holocaust survivor agreed to be interviewed by Hunt in a hotel room. Police say a man claimed responsibility for the attack on an anti-Semitic website registered in Australia. Ironically, Mr. Wiesel was an invited featured speaker at a peace forum at the hotel at the time of the attack. Hunt was charged with attempted battery, stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, and false imprisonment of an elder, each with a hate crime enhancement. Hunt was found guilty and on August 18, 2008, he was given a two-year jail term with time served for good behavior, ordered to undergo psychological treatment, ordered to a period of up to 48 months on probation, and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.

In Wilmington, North Carolina, on this date in 2007, Bryan Arnette, a gay man shopping with his partner at a Walmart in Monkey Junction, was allegedly attacked by one man after another yelled at Arnette and his partner. Arnette has asserted that the New Hanover County Sheriff's Department has been dragging its feet in the investigation.

In Wellington, Colorado, on this date in 2008, Brian Beitey, 19, was arrested in connection with the alleged attack of a black man, Charles Betts, 50, on January 26, 2008, outside the 7-Eleven store at 505 South Shields Street in Fort Collins, Colorado. Beitey, and another white male, are said to have knocked Mr. Betts off his bike and assaulted him while using racial and sexual orientation-based slurs. Beitey was charged with suspicion of second-degree assault causing serious bodily injury and committing a bias-motivated crime.

In the First Hill section of Seattle, Washington, on this date in 2009, an unidentified gay man in his early 40s was the victim of a hate crime robbery and assault. The victim was leaving an IHOP restaurant on East Madison Street when he was punched in the face and robbed by a tall white man in his 20s who used an anti-gay slur during the attack. Then, the victim was kicked in the face by two other men also said to be in their 20s. The man was rendered unconscious in the attack, and was taken to the Harborview Medical Center; he will undergo surgery to repair his fractured left cheekbone.

On this date in 2010 outside Ruby Bridges Elementary School on Jack London Avenue in Alameda, California, a Hispanic man in his 30s walking his two dogs allegedly hurled racist slurs at an African-American woman at the school after she told the man he should clean up after his dogs when one of them defecated on the school's lawn and after he had failed to clean up after his dog. The man also allegedly told the woman she should watch it or she would be "hanging from a tree." The man, who police refused to identify despite the fact he is an adult, then allegedly called the elementary school (which is named after Ruby Bridges who became the first African-American girl to attend an all-white elementary school in the South), and left a voicemail message with a racist slur about African-Americans. The man could face a misdemeanor hate crime charge.