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A Brief History of Equatorial Guinea

Early Kingdoms in the

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Aug

11

1968

Carl Thomas Rowan was born on this day.

Carl Thomas Rowan was born on this day.

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Aug

11

1925

Ted Radcliffe , byname of Theodore Roosevelt Radcliffe (born July 7, 1902, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.—died August 11, 2005, Chicago, Illinois), American baseball player who was a pitcher and catcher in the Negro leagues. Radcliffe was known for his strong throwing arm and, later, for his expansive

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Aug

11

2005

Funny Barack Obama Videos and Viral Clips

Funny Barack Obama Videos and Viral Clips

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Aug

11

2017

Thurgood Marshall

U.S. Senate confirmed nomination of Thurgood Marshal as U.S. solicitor general.

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Aug

11

1965

Six-day insurrection started in L.A.

Six-day insurrection started in Watts section of Los Angeles. National Guard was mobilized on August 13, Rebellion toll: 34 killed, 1,032 injured, 3,952 arrested, $35 million in property damage.

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Aug

11

1965

Alex Haley - Birthday

Alex Haley , in full Alexander Palmer Haley (born August 11, 1921, Ithaca, New York, U.

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Aug

11

1921

Race riot, Paterson, New Jersey

Race riot, Paterson, New Jersey. (8/11-12).

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Aug

11

1964

Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003)

The Second Liberian Civil War was an intense four-year conflict that involved child soldiers on all sides and extensive civilian casualties. It was also one of the few civil wars that spread into neighboring countries, in this case, Guinea and Sierra Leone. The conflict began in April 1999 when

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Aug

11

2003

Actor and co-composer of "Lift Every Voice And Sing", J Rosamond Johnson, born,

Actor and co-composer of Lift Every Voice And Sing, J Rosamond Johnson, born, 1873

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Aug

11

1873

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, better known as Alex Haley, was a celebrated author whose books centered around African American heritage. He was born on August 11, 1921 in Ithaca, New York to Simon and Bertha Palmer Haley. For the first few years of his life he lived in Tennessee with his mother

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Aug

11

1921

Zora Neale Hurston’s Letter to the Orlando Sentinel, 1955

August 11, 1955

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Aug

11

1955

Author of "Roots", Alex Haley was born, 1921

Author of Roots, Alex Haley was born, 1921

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Aug

11

1921

African Methodist Episcopal Conference

The African Methodist Zion and Asbury African Methodist churches, both of New York City, started their own separate African Methodist Episcopal Conference, still within the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Aug

11

1820

Battle of Waterberg (1904)

The Battle of Waterberg on August 11, 1904 in German South-West Africa (Namibia), triggered the annihilation decree by German military of the Herero people, the indigenous nomadic inhabitants of the area. An estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people perished during and after The Battle of Waterberg which

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Aug

11

1904

Black History Month - African American Inventors

Anthony Phills received U.S. patent #5,136,787 on August 11, 1992 for a ruler template for computer

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Aug

11

1992

Peter Marray Marshall of New York

Peter Marray Marshall of New York appointed to American Medical Associations House of Delegates.

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Aug

11

1949

Death of Thaddeus Stevens

Death of Thaddeus Stevens (76), architect of the Radical Reconstruction program, in Washington.

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Aug

11

1868

Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens , (born April 4, 1792, Danville, Vermont, U.S.—died August 11, 1868, Washington, D.C.), U.S. Radical Republican congressional leader during Reconstruction (1865–77) who battled for freedmen’s rights and insisted on stern requirements for readmission of Southern states into the

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Aug

11

1868

The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion,[1] took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to

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Aug

11

1965

Rowan, Carl T. (1925–2000) - Birthday

Rowan was born August 11, 1925, in the mining town of Ravenscroft, Tennessee.

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Aug

11

1925

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