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28 [+]
Joseph Cinque led a successful revolt on slave ship Amistad, 1839 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Malcolm X founded Organization of Afro-American Unity, 1964 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Mel Brooks b. 1928 [Birthdays]
Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978 [Historical Event]
29 [+]
Half Moon (waxing) This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
30 [+]
6th Pan-African Congress held in Dares Salaam, Tanzania, 1974 [African & Black History]
Republic of Zaire Indep. Day [African & Black History]
Czeslaw Milosz b. 1911 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960 [Historical Event]
"That" explosion in Siberia, 1908 [Historical Event]
1 [+]
Algerian people vote for independence from France, 1962 [African & Black History]
Somalia becomes independent, 1960. Rwanda becomes independent, 1962 [African & Black History]
Canada Day This event contains additional notes [Canadian Holidays]
Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863 [Historical Event]
2 [+]
Thurgood Marshall, First Black US Supreme Court Justice, born, 1908 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
Hermann Hesse b. 1877 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
3 [+]
Jackie Robinson, baseball player, born, 1962 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
Dog days begin This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
Franz Kafka b. 1883 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Tom Stoppard b. 1937 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
4 [+]
Tuskegee Institute opens in Tuskegee, Ala, with Booker T. Washington as its first president., 1881 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Neil Simon b. 1927 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Thoreau enters woods, 1845 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
Independence Day This event contains additional notes [Historical Event, US Holidays]
Week
27
5 [+]
Cape Verde Islands becomes independent, 1975 [African & Black History]
Algeria becomes independent after 8 years of guerrilla war and over 1 millions Algerians murdered, 1962 [African & Black History]
P.T. Barnum b. 1810 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Jean Cocteau b. 1889 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
6 [+]
Malawi becomes independent, 1964 [African & Black History]
Beatrix Potter b. 1866 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917 [Historical Event]
First 'talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928 [Historical Event]
7 [+]
First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949 [Historical Event]
8 [+]
Venus Williams defeats tennis player Lindsay Davenport to win her first Wimbledon championship., 2000 [African & Black History]
Anjelica Huston b. 1951 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835 [Historical Event]
First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 [Historical Event]
9 [+]
June Jordan, writer, born in Harlem, 1936 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
David Hockney b. 1937 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847 [Historical Event]
10 [+]
134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
11 [+]
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee published, 1960 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
Week
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12 [+]
Africans beaten by police in Newark, N.J.-sparks riots, 1967 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Henry David Thoreau b. 1817 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Pablo Neruda b. 1904 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933 [Historical Event]
13 [+]
Wole Soyinka b. 1934 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
Julius Caesar b. 100 BC This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908 [Historical Event]
14 [+]
Isaac Bashevis Singer b. 1904 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Ingmar Bergman b. 1918 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
15 [+]
Half Moon (waning) This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
Rembrandt Van Rijn b. 1606 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Confuflux This event contains additional notes [Discordian Calendar]
16 [+]
Dr. John Henry Clarke, historian and scholar, dies at 83, 1998 [African & Black History]
Ida B. Wells, led struggle to end lynching of Africans in USA, born, 1862 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
Ginger Rogers b. 1911 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, NM, 1945 [Historical Event]
17 [+]
Nelson Mandela b. 1918 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
Fascists rise up in Spanish Morocco, triggering the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936 This event contains additional notes [Anarchist History]
Donald Sutherland b. 1935 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Disneyland opens, 1955 [Historical Event]
18 [+]
Watts Riots: Africans revolt in Los Angeles, US, 1965 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927 [Historical Event]
Week
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19 [+]
Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692 [Historical Event]
20 [+]
U.N. sends troops to Congo precipitation fall of government of Patrice Lumumba and his eventual murder by CIA, 1960 [African & Black History]
National Conference of Black Power, opens in Newark, N.J. 1967 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Frantz Fanon born in Martinique, fought in Algeria against French, and wrote "Wretched of the Earth", 1925 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
Natalie Wood b. 1938 [Birthdays]
Mal-2 Day This event contains additional notes [Discordian Calendar]
Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969 [Historical Event]
21 [+]
Albert Lutuli, ANC President dies, 1967 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Mary Chruch Terrell founds the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, DC, 1896 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Ernest Hemingway b. 1899 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Robin Williams b. 1952 [Birthdays]
Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954 [Historical Event]
First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873 [Historical Event]
22 [+]
600 free Maroons immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from Jamaica, 1796 [African & Black History]
George Clinton b. 1941 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Birthdays]
New Moon This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
Albert Brooks b. 1947 [Birthdays]
Pi Approximation Day This event contains additional notes [Discordian Calendar]
23 [+]
First Pan-African Conference, organized by Henry Sylvester-Williams is held in Town Hall, London, 1900 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Raymond Chandler b. 1888 [Birthdays]
Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904 [Historical Event]
24 [+]
Robert Graves b. 1895 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 [Historical Event]
25 [+]
US health officials admit using using Africans as guinea pigs in syphillis experiments for more than 40 years,1972 [African & Black History]
Walter Brennan b. 1894 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Week
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26 [+]
Liberia becomes independent, 1847 [African & Black History]
George Bernard Shaw b. 1856 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Stanley Kubrick b. 1928 [Birthdays]
C.G. Jung b. 1875 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
27 [+]
Norman Lear b. 1922 [Birthdays]
28 [+]
14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to Africans in America This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Half Moon (waxing) This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
Marcel Duchamp b. 1887 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
29 [+]
First National Conference of Colored Women Convention, 1895 [African & Black History]
Chester Himes, crime novelist, born 1909 [African & Black History]
William H. Gass b. 1924 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
30 [+]
Emily Bronte b. 1818 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
"In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956 [Historical Event]
31 [+]
Marcus Garvey begins organizing the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica, 1914 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Primo Levi b. 1919 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, later JFK [Historical Event]
1 [+]
Micheal Johnson is the first man to win gold medals in both the 200 and 400-meter runs, breaking his own world record, 1996 [African & Black History]
Marcus Garvey leads 1st Convention of Universal Negro Improvement Association, in New York, 1920 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Slavery abolished in the British colonial territories, 1834 [African & Black History]
Jerry Garcia b. 1942 [Birthdays]
Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on this day [Historical Event]
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