· Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Oak Creek Sikh Temple Shooting

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Content note: this entry describes racial violence.

A white-supremacist gunman killed six worshippers (a seventh died of his wounds years later) at a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, one of the deadliest attacks on a US faith community.

Communities
  • Sikh
  • Indian American
Event type
  • racial violence
  • violence
Regions
  • South Asian

Sources

  • npr.org npr.org/2022/08/05/1115931555/remembering-the-oak-creek-killings-a-harbinger-of-white-supremacist-violence
  • rememberoakcreek.org rememberoakcreek.org/story-of-oak-creek

Also on August 5

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Sammy Lee Wins Olympic Diving Gold

Sammy Lee won Olympic gold in 10-meter platform diving in London, becoming the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal; he repeated as champion in 1952. (Shares Aug 5 with the 2012 Oak Creek gurdwara shooting.)