1st 1834 - Slavery declared unlawful in the British Empire.
1867 - Robert T. Freeman, becomes the 1st African-
American to graduate from Harvard Dental School.
1874 - Charles T. Spaulding, one the the founders of the
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, is
born.
1895 - Benjiman Mays is born(d.1984)
1960 - Benin, formerly Dahomey, gains its independence.
1964 - Arthur Ashe, becomes the 1st African-American to
play on the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team.
1979 - Hazel Johnson, beGeneral.
2nd 1847 - William A. Leidesdorff launches the 1st steamboat,
in San Francisco Bay.
1927 - James Baldwin, writer, novelist and Civil Rights
activist, is born(d.1987)
1932 - Phillipa Shuyler, composer and pianist, is born.
3rd 1787 - Prince Hall Lodge is organized as the 1st
African-American Lodge.
1908 - Allen Allensworth files the site plan for the African-
American town of Allensworth, California.
1917 - Eddie Jefferson, the recognised "father of Jazz
vocalese", is born(d.1979).
4th 1838 - The Island of the Bahamas gains its independence.
1875 - The 1st Convention of Colored Newspaperman is
held in Cinncinatti, Ohio.
1901 - Louis Daniel Armstrong July 6, 1971),
nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was
American jazz trumpeter and singer
from New Orleans, Louisiana. d. July 6, 1971
1936 - "Long John" Woodruff of the University of
Pittsburgh wins an Olympic Gold Medal in the 800
meter run.
1979 - Willie Mays, baseball great, who played with the
N.Y. baseball Giants and the San Francisco Giants,
was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
5th 1892 - Harriet Tubman, receives a pension fron the
Congress of the United States, for her work as
a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War.
1962 - South African rights activist, Nelson Mandela is
imprisoned in South Africa.
1964 - Civil Rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael
Schwerner and J.B. Chaney, were found dead in
dam near philadelphia, Mississippi.
1986 - Kamaria Wilson, is born.
6th 1957 - Reverand Archibald J. Carey appointed chairman
of the President's(eisenhaur)Government
Employment Committee.
1962 - The Carribean island of Jamaica gains its
independence.
1965 - President Lyndon Baynes Johnson signs the
Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for
voting eligibility in the South.
1967 - Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaica's 1st Prime
Minister, dies.
7th 1846 - Escaped slave and abolitionist, Frederick
Douglass was speaker at the World's
Temperance Convention
in London, England.
1904 - Dr. Ralph Bunche, the 1st African American
Nobel Prize winner, is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1936 - Jazz woodwind instument innovator,
Rashaan Roland Kirk, is born(d.1977)
1932 - Abebe Bikila, winner of the 1960 Olympic
marathon, (running barefoot) is born.
8th 1865 - Matthew Henson, explorer and writer is born. He
was the 1st to reach the North Pole.
1963 - The ZimbabweAfricanNationalUnion(ZANU)is
founded.
9th 1936 - Track star Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the
Olympics in Berlin, Germany, putting to rest forever
Aryan Racial Superiority theory of the Nazi
government, led by Adolph Hitler.
1899 - Noble Sissle, African American composer and
librettist, is born(d.1975).
1956 - South African Women's Day-The Anniversity of
The Women's March on Pretoria.
1979 - Patricia Roberts Harris was installed as President
Jimmy Carter's Secretay of Health and Human
Services.
10th 1873 - J. Rosamund Johnson, composer and arranger of
"Lift Every Voice And Sing", is born(d.1954).
1909 - George W. Crockett, Jr., the 1st African-American
lawyer with the U.S. Department of Laboris born in
Jacksonville, Florida.
1964 - African-American students register at previously all
white elementary schools in Biloxi, Mississippi.
1984 - Carl Lewis wins 4 gold medals at the Olympics,
duplicating Jesse Owens' feat at the 1936
Olympics.
11th 1921 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots", is born in Ithica, N.Y.
(d.1992).
1924 - Carl T. Rowan, writer, author, radio and newspaper
columnist, is born(d.1999).
1962 - Police close the municipal parks and library in
Albany, Georgia, after segregated groups try to use
the facilities.
12th 1922 - Frederick Douglass's house in Washington, D.C. is
dedicated a memorial to Race Struggle.
1977 - Black conciousnous movement activist, Steven Biko
arrested in Soweto, South Africa.
13th 1881 - The 1st African-American nursing school is founded
at Spelman College, in Atlanta georgia.
1892 - The Baltimore based, Afro-American newspaper is
founded
1911 - James B. Parsons, the 1st African-American Federal
Judge, is born.
1927 - Bernice Elizabeth Wilson, is born, in Stubenville,
Ohio(d.2000).
1927 - Actress Claudia McNeil, is born(d.1998)
14th 1883 - Ernest E. Just, biologist(pioneer of cell division)and
1st winner of the NAACP Spingard Medal, is born.
1938 - Niara Sudarkasa, educator and 1st female president
of Lincoln University, is born in Ft, Lauderdale, FL.
1959 - Basketball legend, Ervin "Magic" Johnson, is born.
15th 1875 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor, composer, is born.
1914 - Panama Canal is opened: opening the world to the
peoples of the Southern hemisphere.
1938 - Maxine Waters. the 2nd African-American woman to
be elected to Congress from California, is born.
