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All Fool's Day |
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1918: |
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Artist, Charles White's birthday. |
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1950: |
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Blood research pioneer and developer of blood plasma, Charles Drew dies. |
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1989: |
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Bill White elected president of the National Baseball League. |
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1796: |
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French forces at St. Domingo led by L'Ouverture. |
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1984: |
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Georgetown coach John Thompson becomes first African American coach to win the NCAA basketball tournament. |
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1826: |
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Poet-orator James Madiso Bell, author of the Emancipation Day poem 'The Day and the War,' born. |
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1950: |
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Carter G. Woodson dies. |
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1961: |
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Eddie Murphy born. |
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1990: |
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Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer known as the 'Divine One,' dies. |
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1928: |
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Acclaimed author/poet, Maya Angelou born. |
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1968: |
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Civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assissinated in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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1856: |
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Booker T. Washington, educator, born. |
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1951: |
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Washington, D.C. Municipal Court of Appeals outlaws segregation in restaurants. |
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1905: |
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Warrick Cardozo, physician and researcher, born. |
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1909: |
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Matthew a Henson reaches North Pole, 45 minutes before Robert E. Peary. |
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1959: |
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Lorraine Hansberry becomes the first black playwright to win New York Drama Critics Award (for A Raisin in the Sun). |
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1974: |
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Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hite 715th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth as the game's all-time home-run leader. |
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1898: |
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Paul Robeson, actor, singer, activist, born. |
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1938: |
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Buffalo Soldier Augutus Walley (9th Calvary), Medal of Honor recipient, dies.http://www.louisdiggs.com/buffalo/deceased.html |
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1943:
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Aurthur Ashe, first black to win the U.S. Open and men's singles title at Wimbledon, born. |
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1947: |
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Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson becomes first black to play major league baseball. |
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1899: |
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Percy Julian, developer of physostigmine and synthetic cortisone, born |
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1966: |
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Ernest Ashford becomes first black umpire in the major leagues. |
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1983: |
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Harold Washington becomes first African American elected mayor of Chicago. |
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1950: |
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Historian Carter G. Woodson, author of The Miseducation of the Negro, dies. |
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1997: |
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Tiger Woods wins Masters Golf Tournament. |
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1775: |
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First abolitionist society in U.S. founded in Philadelphia. |
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1964: |
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Sidney Poitier becomes first black to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lillies of the Field. |
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1862: |
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Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia. |
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1983: |
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Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize fofr fiction for The Color Purple. |
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1990: |
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Ralph David Abernathy, civil rights leader, dies. |
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1887: |
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Harlem Hospital founded. |
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1995: |
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Margo Jefferson wins Pulitzer Prize for criticism. |
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1972: |
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Stationed in Germany, Major General Frederick E. Davidson becomes first African American to lead an Army division. |
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1894: |
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Dr. Lloyd A. Hall, pioneering food chemist, born. |
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1966: |
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Private First Class Milton L. Olive III awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor for valor in Vietnam. |
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1922: |
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Jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus born. |
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Administrative Professional Day |
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1872: |
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Charlotte E. Ray is the first black woman admitted to the District of Columbus Bar. |
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1944: |
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United Negro College Fund incorporated. |
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1918: |
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Ella Fitzgerald, 'First Lady of Song,' born. |
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1888: |
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Sarah Boone patents ironing board. |
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1968: |
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Dr. Vincent Porter becomes first black certified in plastic surgery. |
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1839: |
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Cinque leads Amistad mutiny off the coast of Long Island, New York. |
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1899: |
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Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington, jazz musician and composer, born. |
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1852: |
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Dr. Louis T. Wright honored by American Cancer Society for his contributions to cancer research. |
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