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Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was born in this day in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1938 he became the first boxer to hold three titles after winning the boxing lighweight championship.
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Dec
12
1912
Ethiopia Invaded by Italy
Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior
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Oct
3
1935
Arthur Ashe, first Black male to winWimbledon, is denied entry to
Arthur Ashe, first Black male to win Wimbledon, is denied entry to compete on the US Team for the South African Open tennis championships due to Ashes sentiments on South Africas racial policies
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Jan
28
1970
Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1722- )
The compact city of Kingstown is the capital of the eastern Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.  It is also a major port city for the Windward Islands, a chain of Caribbean Islands that includes locales beyond St. Vincent and the Grenadines.  Bananas, coconuts and arrowroot
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Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson permanently retired from boxing on this day with six victories in title bouts to his credit -- more than any other fighter in history.
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Dec
10
1965
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is a retired professional boxer who was the WBC Heavyweight Champion from 1978 to 1983. Holmes was also the Ring Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985, and the IBF Heavyweight Champion from 1980 to 1985. Holmes is considered by many to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all
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21
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Bo Diddley is born.
Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and
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Dec
30
1928
(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public
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Henry Highland Garnet born a slave
Henry Highland Garnet, minister, abolitionist and diplomat, born a slave in Kent County, Maryland.
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Dec
23
1815
Namibia
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Aretha Franklin
Born: 3/25/1942 Memphis, TennesseeAretha Franklin is an American singer and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklins church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only
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Namibia
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Baca, Susana (1944- )
Susana Baca, recording artist and the first Afro-Peruvian to sit as a Cabinet Minister, was born in 1944 in Chorrillos, a seaside district of Lima, Peru, to a working class family. Her father was a chauffeur and her mother worked as cook and laundress for upper class families. Baca began singing at
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Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali for heavyweight
Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali for heavyweight boxing championship. Ali regained the title on September 15 and became the person to win the title three times.
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Josephine Baker dies
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she later took the name Baker from her stepfather. Surviving the 1917 riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, where the family was living, she ran away a few years alter at age thirteen and began dancing in vaudeville and on Broadway. In 1925, she
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1975
South Africa was suspended from the U.N. General Assembly over its racial polici
South Africa was suspended from the U.N. General Assembly over its racial policies.
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Nov
12
1974
Atty
Atty. James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia.
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25
1915
William "Bill" Richmond officially retires from boxing.At the end of his caree
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Jan
0
1815
Anti-segregation March
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Mar
2
1961
Spingarn Medal : Max Yergan
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Mar
15
1933
Paris Exposition
African-American painter Henry O. Tanner was one of the 6,916 American exhibitors at the Paris Expoition which closed its gates on this day. Tanner won a silver medal for his entry.
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Nov
12
1900
John Stephens Durham
John Stephens Durham, assistant editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, named minister to Haiti.
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Sep
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1891
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1952
Second Pan-African Congress met in London
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28
1921
Cornel West
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1963
Early Sermon for Abolition
On this date in 1791, Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745-1801) preached a strong anti-slavery sermon before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and for the Relief of Persons unlawfully holden in Bondage. Edwards was a Congregationalist minister, like his more famous father, and later
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Sep
15
1791
Nelson Mandela
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Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
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