On this date in 1996 in Tilly, Arkansas, two white supremacists, Chevie Kehoe, 23, of Colville, Washington, and Danny Lee, 23, of Yukon, Oklahoma, murdered Bill Mueller, 52, his wife Nancy Mueller, 28, and her daughter, Sarah Powell, 8, as part of a plan to overthrow the federal government. The family was discovered months later in Russellville, Arkansas; and, in 1999 Kehoe and Lee were convicted. Kehoe was given a life sentence and Lee was given the death penalty. On August 28, 2008, U. S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele denied new trials for both convicts.

On this date in 2002 in New York City, an African-American gay man, Eric D. Miller, 26, was shot in the chest on a Harlem street as he and a friend, Jason Taylor, 20, walked to a friend’s apartment from the homeless shelter where they had been staying. Miller, a former marine, told police that he and his friend were peppered first with anti-gay remarks by a pair of African-American men, including "Black men shouldn’t be gay," before they had rocks thrown at them. A bottle was later thrown at Mr. Taylor, and shortly after that, Mr. Miller was shot by a man who yelled that Mr. Taylor should burn in hell.

In 2008 on this date in Highland, Utah about 30 miles from Salt Lake City, threatening and bias-laced graffiti was discovered at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' seminary building at Highland High School. The FBI is considering the attack on the seminary a hate crime. The press reported that the FBI said a reward is being offered for information about the hate crime, and anyone with information about the crime is urged to call Salt Lake City police at 801-799-3000 or the FBI at 801-579-1400.