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Governor James A. Rhodes declared state of emergency in Cleveland and dispatched National Guard troops to riot-torn Hough district.
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19
1966
Five African American Artists, 1971
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President sent federal troops to South Carolina
President sent federal troops to South Carolina.
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Oct
26
1876
Joseph B. Anderson
Joseph B. Anderson, Jr. is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of TAG Holdings, LLC. Anderson has been at the helm of the manufacturing, service and technology business since January 2002. Previously, Anderson was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chivas
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Camp George Jordan
Camp George Jordan was a United States Army facility established in Seattle, Washington, during World War II.  It was generally known as a Black army camp, because it was segregated in such a way that the African Americans were housed on one side of the street – referred to as “Camp Jordan
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Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī , (born c. 1297—died May 24, 1351, Hintato, Mor.), Marīnid sultan of Morocco (reigned 1331–51) who increased the territories of his dynasty and, for a brief time, created a united North African
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Civil War Caterer and Senator
For more than 25 years Joshua B. Smith (1813-1879) operated a thriving catering business for private individuals and abolitionist organizations as well as for the troops during the Civil War. He represented Cambridge as a Senator in the state legislature during 1873 and 1874.
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Matthews, William Dominick (ca. 1833-ca. 1910)
William Dominick Matthews was a Civil War officer in the Union Army and is best known for leading the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry. Matthews was born a free man in October 25th, 1827, on the eastern shore of Maryland to parents who were interracially married. His father Joseph was
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Oct
29
1862
Julia Child
Name at birth: Julia McWilliams
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Jonas Savimbi
Jonas Savimbi , in full Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (born August 3, 1934, Portuguese Angola—died February 22, 2002, near Lucusse, Angola), Angolan politician, the leader of a long-continuing guerrilla insurgency against the postindependence government of
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Feb
22
2002
Child, Julia
Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif., as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. In the early 1940s both she and her husband-to-be, Paul Child, served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and
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Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist | Underground Railroad
Born Harriet Ross, c. 1819-1820, Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman was born into
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Mar
10
1913
Battle of Isandlwana (1879)
The Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879,was the first engagement of the Anglo-Zulu War and would prove to be asignificant and unexpected victory for the Zulu in a war which they ultimatelylost to the
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AiR's Latest e-book 'FEAR - False Expectations Appearing Real' Addresses the Current Crisis and Shows the way Forward
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA, May 10, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- Atman in Ravi's e-book titled 'FEAR' has captured the essence of the current crisis of
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Bernicat, Marcia Stephens Bloom (1957- )
Born in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in 1957, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat earned a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1975. Thinking she might teach overseas, Bernicat earned a teaching credential in social sciences at the secondary level. Rather than
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Gen. A. J. Smith
Gen. A. J. Smith with fourteen thousand men, including a brigade of Black troops, defeated Nathan B. Forrest at Harrisburg, near Tupelo, Mississippi.
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Jul
15
1864
WGPR-TV (1975–1995)
WGPR-TV (Where God’s Presence Radiates) was the first television station in the United States owned and operated by African Americans. The station, located in Detroit, Michigan, was founded by William Venoid Banks. WGPR-TV marketed toward the urban audience in Detroit, Michigan, which in that
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Federal Troops in New Orleans
Federal troops withdrawn from public buildings in New Orleans.
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Apr
20
1877
Slavery
The Dutch West India Company is chartered, initiatingDutch merchants into the Atlantic slave trade; thecharter grants a translantic trade monopoly for 24 years.
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1621
Kenya
On October 16, 2011, Kenyan sent several hundred troops into battle against the Shabab militant group. Armored trucks, tanks and helicopters were also sent. Helicopters bombed Shabab bases. More Kenyan troops were sent in later with the goal to clear the Shabab out. It was a rare aggressive act by
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Oct
16
2011
John Lee, becomes first black commissioned officer
John Lee, first black commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy is assigned to
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Mar
13
1957
Blacks in Battle
In one of the decisive battles of the war, two brigades of Black troops helped crush one of the Souths finest armies at the Battle of Nashville. Black troops opened the battle on the first day and successfully engaged the right of the rebel line. On the second day Col. Charles R. Thompsons Black
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Dec
15
1864
First Battle of El Alamein- World War II (North Africa)
First Battle of El Alamein - Conflict
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How the Compromise of 1850 Helped Delay the Civil War
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills intended to stave off sectional strife that passed during Millard Fillmores presidency. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War, all the Mexican-owned territory between California and Texas was given to the United
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Jan
29
1850
Knights of Pythias established
Knights of Pythias established. Confederate troops defeated three Black and six white regiments at Battle of Olustee, about fifty miles from Jacksonville, Florida.
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Feb
19
1864
Ethiopia
In August 2012, Prime Minister Zenawi died at age 57 after a long illness. Zenawi had been in power since 1995. He is credited with lifting the country out of famine to the point that Ethiopia began exporting food, reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, and improving
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2013
Mali
In March 2012, President Touré was overthrown in a coup by mutineering soldiers who said they were acting in response to the governments response to the rebellion by the Tuaregs, nomadic insurgents of Berber and Arab descent who live in the north. The troops said they did not received adequate
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Rebels abandoned Charleston
Rebels abandoned Charleston. First Union troops to enter the city included Twenty-first U.S.C.T., followed by two companies of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers.
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Feb
18
1865
Somalia
In Jan. 2007, the U.S. launched airstrikes on the retreating Islamists, who they believed included three members of al-Qaeda suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The air strikes were strongly criticized in a number of Muslim
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2009
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