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| 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 1932: World Famous Black cowboy Willie 'Bill' Pickett died. | 3 1961: Actor/Comedian Eddie Murphy was born in the borough of Brooklyn, New York. | 4 1968: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. | 5 1987: Leria Jordan became the first black member of the 65 year old Junior League of Birmingham. |
6 1909: Matthew Henson reached the North Pole. | 7 1917: Billie Holiday, blues singer, born in E. Baltimore. | 8 1960: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating (SNCC) was organized. | 9 1866: Congress passed the first civil rights act over the veto of then President Andrew Jackson. | 10 1877: President Rutherford Hayes ordered withdrawal of occupation forces from southern states. | 11 1990: Idaho became the 47th state to recognize Jan. 15th as a Martin Luther King Jr., National Holiday. | 12 1861: United States Civil War began at 4:30 a.m. |
13 Thomas Jefferson`s Birthday
1963: the Oscar for best actor by the Academy of Motion Pictures was given to an African American for the first time. | 14 1865: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. | 15 1922: Chicago's first black mayor Harold Washington was born in the Windy City. | 16 1862: Slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia. | 17 1924: Althea Simmons, congressional lobbyist for the NAACP was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. | 18 1977: Alex Haley, author of Roots, awarded Pulitzer Prize. | 19 1775: Minutemen stood against the British at Concord Bridge, beginning of the American Revolution. |
20 1990: Oakland hosted the first bay area Black Filmmakers Festival. | 21 1898: Volunteer army units took part in the Spanish American War on Cuban soil. | 22 Earth Day
1526: First slave revolt occurs in South Carolina. | 23 1913: The National Urban League was incorporated. | 24 1944: The United Negro College Fund was established. | 25 1918: Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald was born in New Port; Lisa Nicole Lopes died in car crash (La C. Honduras). | 26 1821: The first performance of an all black theater group (American Theater Group) was given in New York City. |
27 1927: Coretta Scott (King) wife of M.L. King Jr., was born, Heiberger, Alabama. | 28 1967: Muhammad Ali refused induction into the United States Army. | 29 1899: Duke Ellington conductor, lyricist and pianist was born in Washington D.C. | 30 Administrative Professionals Day
1936: The Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is lost to the Italians. | 1 | 2 | 3 |