On January 22, 1980...
 
1980: Chemical Attack on Demonstrators in El Salvador
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"A demonstration march by a coalition of popular organizations on 22 January was first sprayed with DDT by crop-duster planes along the route of the march; then, when the demonstrators reached San Salvador’s central plaza, snipers fired at them from surrounding government buildings; at least 21 dead and 120 seriously wounded was the toll"

Source: Blum (1995), Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Bloomsbury
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