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Mayor Muriel Bowser Wants Clemency

Add to the list of indignities suffered by District residents due to not being a state, Mayor Muriel Bower thinks the time has come that the power to commute sentences […]

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1916

Samuel L. Gravely is born

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4

1922

Ernest Everett Just

Born: 8/14/1883 Charleston, South CarolinaDied: 10/27/1941 Washington, D.C., United StatesErnest Everett Just was a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer. Justs primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of

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The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the

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Mar

19

1883

Saint Francis Xavier Church

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Oct

10

1863

Claimed Pres. Election

President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claimed the presidential election. Republicans and Democrats claimed elections in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.

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7

1876

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Vernon E. Jordan Jr., President of the National Urban League, critically injured in attempted assassination in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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29

1980

1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Ken

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Nov

10

1999

Clarence Thomas

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Conception Seminary College

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Born: 7/18/1918 Mvezo, South AfricaDied: 12/5/2013 Johannesburg, South AfricaMandela spent most of his life campaigning for an end to apartheid in South Africa. After over 20 years in prison, he was released and was able to be the first elected President in post apartheid South Africa. Also admired

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Former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ronald H Brown was appoint

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1993

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14

1999

U.S. Marines landed in Haiti

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Jul

28

1915

Thurgood Marshall

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23

1821

The Supreme Court weakened the foundations

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Jun

5

1950

Race riot, Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas

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13

1919

Freedmen's Bank closed

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1

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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May

1

1946

Attorney General George Williams

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12

1872

Benjamin Mays, President of Morehouse College

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Mar

28

1984

Proclamation on Violence

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21

1874

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator/activist

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May

18

1955

Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, is elected President of Senegal.

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Sep

5

1960

The Brooklyn Excelsiors is the first black baseballteam to tour the United Sta

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1860

Chenault Promoted in American Express

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