U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a> orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bonus Army">Bonus Army</a>" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.