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31 [+]
Trinidad and Tobago Independence Day [African & Black History]
Nat Turner leads huge slave revolt in Virginia, 1831 [African & Black History]
Van Morrison b. 1945 [Birthdays]
Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 [Historical Event]
Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 [Historical Event]
269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 [Historical Event]
Ramadan begins [International Holidays]
1 [+]
Walter Reuther b. 1907 [Birthdays]
Labour Day This event contains additional notes [Canadian Holidays]
Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 [Historical Event]
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 [Historical Event]
Labor Day [International Holidays]
2 [+]
Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945 [Historical Event]
Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752 [Historical Event]
3 [+]
Great abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes slavery, disguised as a sailor, 1838 [African & Black History]
Buresloth This event contains additional notes [Discordian Calendar]
Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino [Historical Event]
4 [+]
Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African students from entering a Little Rock high school., 1957 [African & Black History]
Dick York b. 1928 [Birthdays]
5 [+]
Leopold Sedar Senghor,poet and politician, is elected pres. of Senegal, 1960 [African & Black History]
The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774 [Historical Event]
Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 [Historical Event]
6 [+]
J.A. Rogers, author of Great Men of Color, dies in 1996 [African & Black History]
Swaziland becomes independent, 1968 [African & Black History]
Somhlolo in Swaziland [Historical Event]
Pres. McKinley shot, 1901 [Historical Event]
First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966 [Historical Event]
149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620 [Historical Event]
Week
36
7 [+]
Half Moon (waxing) This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
Buddy Holly b. 1936 This event contains additional notes [Birthdays]
8 [+]
President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
"Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966) This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
9 [+]
Dr. Carter G. Woodson founds the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1915 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
California becomes the 31st state, 1850 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
10 [+]
Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, 1961 This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Yma Sumac b. 1928 [Birthdays]
Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857 [Historical Event]
11 [+]
Serena Williams, 17yrs, defeats Marina Hingis to wiin her first major tennis championship, the US Open. [African & Black History]
12 [+]
Cape Verde Independence [African & Black History]
George Jones b. 1931 [Birthdays]
German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943 [Historical Event]
Germany annexes Sudentenland, 1938 [Historical Event]
13 [+]
New York state trooper crush a revolt at Attica State Prison; twenty-eight inmates and nine hostages are killed., 1971 [African & Black History]
Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 [Historical Event]
Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 [Historical Event]
British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 [Historical Event]
136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 [Historical Event]
Week
37
14 [+]
Dorthy Boulding Ferebee, physician second president of the National Council for Negro Women, dies. 1980 [African & Black History]
Kate Millett b. 1934 [Birthdays]
The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 [Historical Event]
Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 [Historical Event]
Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778 [Historical Event]
15 [+]
Four little girls killed in church in Birmingham, AL, bomby by KKK, 1963 [African & Black History]
Paul Robinson performs in "Othello" for the 269th time, 1943 [African & Black History]
First national convention for African held at Bethel Chruch, Philadelphia, 1830 [African & Black History]
Henry Kaiser b. 1952 [Birthdays]
The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789 [Historical Event]
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959 [Historical Event]
16 [+]
Blues great B. B. King is born in Indianola, Miss. 1925 [African & Black History]
Peter Falk b. 1927 [Birthdays]
The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630 [Historical Event]
17 [+]
"Fugitive Slave Law" passed by US Congress swells African emigration to Canada, 1850. This event contains additional notes [African & Black History, Historical Event]
Battle of Antietam, 1862 [Historical Event]
18 [+]
Cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a Cuban, becomes the first Black to travel in space, 1980. This event contains additional notes [African & Black History]
Kwame Nkrumah, founder of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, and President of Ghana's independence from the British, born 1850 [African & Black History]
Greta Garbo b. 1905 [Birthdays]
Victory of Uprona in Burundi [Historical Event]
19 [+]
Gordon Park's film "The Learning Tree" is among the first films to be registered by the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, 1989 [African & Black History]
Iota Phi Theta fraternity is founded at Morgan State Univesity, Baltimore [African & Black History]
Moroccon guerrillas under the leadership of Abd el-Krim defeat Spanish and declare the independent Rif Republic, 1921. [African & Black History]
20 [+]
National Negro Convention convenes in Philadelphia with the purpose of abolishing slavery, 1830 [African & Black History]
Stephen King b. 1947 [Birthdays]
The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973 [Historical Event]
Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519 [Historical Event]
First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916 [Historical Event]
Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884 [Historical Event]
First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848 [Historical Event]
Week
38
21 [+]
Belize Independence Day [African & Black History]
Chuck Jones b. 1912 [Birthdays]
International Day of Peace [International Day of...]
22 [+]
Half Moon (waning) This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949 [Historical Event]
Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974 [Historical Event]
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 [Historical Event]
Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953 [Historical Event]
23 [+]
South Africa's parliament creates a multiracial body to oversee the end of exclusive white control of the nation, 1993 [African & Black History]
Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy" is published, 1818 [Anarchist History]
Bruce Springsteen b. 1949 [Birthdays]
The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845 [Historical Event]
Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972 [Historical Event]
V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952 [Historical Event]
24 [+]
Amilcar Cabra, Pan-Africanist, born 1924 [African & Black History]
Jim Henson b. 1936 [Birthdays]
25 [+]
Armed struggle for the liberation of Mozambique begins, 1964 [African & Black History]
Dr. Eric Williams, president of Trinidad and Tobago, is born, 1911. He also wrote "Capitalism and Slavery" [African & Black History]
The U.S. Senate makes public 238 illegal FBI burglaries against dissident groups. These actions become known as COINTELPRO, an acronym for counter-intelligence-programs, 1975 [Anarchist History]
After brutal repression at the hands of the Bolsheviks, Cheka raids on Anarchist groups and the banning of the Anarchist Congress by Trotsky in June, underground Anarchists retaliate by bombing the Communist headquarters in Moscow, 1919 [Anarchist History]
William Faulkner b. 1897 [Birthdays]
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981 [Historical Event]
26 [+]
Bessie Smith, "Empress of Blues, dies, 1937 [African & Black History]
The Chicago Eight (Seven) Conspiracy trial begins, 1969 [Anarchist History]
T.S. Eliot b. 1888 [Birthdays]
George Gershwin b. 1898 [Birthdays]
Bureflux This event contains additional notes [Discordian Calendar]
27 [+]
Bud Powell b. 1924 [Birthdays]
The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825 [Historical Event]
Week
39
28 [+]
David Walker issues "Walker's Appeal" denouncing slavery, calling for slave revolts, 1829 [African & Black History]
W.C. Hand's "Memphis Blues" is published: 1912 [African & Black History]
Guinea votes "no" to French colonialism and demands complete independence, 1958 [African & Black History]
A bomb devastates part of the Latin American section of the ITT building in New York. The bomb was in retaliation for ITT's involvement in the bloody overthrow of Chile's former President Allende one week ago, 1973 [Anarchist History]
Confucius b. 551 B.C. [Birthdays]
"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678 [Historical Event]
A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon, 490BC [Historical Event]
29 [+]
Brazil mercifully agrees to accept thousands of African refugees fleeing war in Angola: 1997 [African & Black History]
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opens a new $3.8 million building in New York City: 1980 [African & Black History]
The Cheka (Bolshevik Secret Police) execute Anarchist Fanya Baron and Anarchist poet Leu Cherny, 1921 [Anarchist History]
New Moon This event contains additional notes [Astronomical Events]
Lech Walesa b. 1943 [Birthdays]
Ramadan ends [International Holidays]
Rosh Hashanah This event contains additional notes [International Holidays]
30 [+]
Botswana becomes independent, 1966 [African & Black History]
Truman Capote b. 1924 [Birthdays]
The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946 [Historical Event]
The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846 [Historical Event]
Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4), [Historical Event]
1 [+]
Nigeria Independence Day [African & Black History]
Vladimir Horowitz b. 1904 [Birthdays]
Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949 This event contains additional notes [Historical Event]
NASA officially begins operations, 1958 [Historical Event]
International Day of Older Persons [International Day of...]
2 [+]
The Republic of Guinea becomes independent under Sekou Toure: 1958 [African & Black History]
Groucho Marx b. 1898 [Birthdays]
Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967 [Historical Event]
3 [+]
4 [+]
Independence of Kingdom of Lesotho [African & Black History]
H.Rap Brown, chairman of the SNCC, born: 1943 [African & Black History]
Susan Sarandon b. 1946 [Birthdays]
First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957 [Historical Event]
Crimean war begins, 1853 [Historical Event]
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