The rousing celebration here was held on the Spring Street side of City Hall on September 15, 1953, with thousands of persons of Mexican ancestry joining in. They shouted--as if in one voice--Viva! for liberty and the revolutionary cry, El Grito, which touched off the 10-year war of revolution in Mexico on September 15, 1810.
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