| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
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| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 1787: First free school for blacks opened in New York City. | 2 1983: Bill proclaiming Martin Luther King Jr., birthday as a national holiday was signed by President Reagan. |
3 1942: William Dawson became the first black elected to congress from Illinois. | 4 1879: T. Elkins patented a refrigerating apparatus. | 5 1974: George Brown became first black Lt. Governor in U.S.(Colorado). | 6 1900: James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosmund composed 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'. | 7 1989: David Dimkens became New York City`s first black mayor. | 8 1966: Edward W. Brooke, of Massachusetts, became the first black U.S. Senator since Reconstruction. | 9 1868: Howard University Medical school opened. |
10 1960: Andrew Hatcher was named Associate Press Secretary to President John Kennedy. | 11 VETERANS Day
| 12 1941: Madame Lillian Evanti founded the National Negro Opera Company. | 13 1839: First Anti-slavery political party Liberty Party was organized. | 14 1915: Booker T. Washington died of a heart attack at Tuskegee Institute. | 15 1966: Bill Russell became the first black coach of the Boston Celtic`s team 1st black to coach in Nat. Basketball Assoc. | 16 1981: Pam Johnson became the first black woman to head daily newspaper as publisher of the Ithica Journal in New York. |
17 1911: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity founded at Howard University. | 18 Klu Klux Klan member convicted of 1963 church bombing that killed four young black girls in Birmingham, Alabama. | 19 1953: Roy Campanella was named MVP in the National Baseball League. | 20 1989: Fredrick C. Gregory became the first black to command a space shuttle with the launch of Discovery. | 21 1949: Baseball great Jackie Robinson was awarded the Freedom Foundation Medal. | 22 1963: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. | 23 1897: J.L. Love patented the pencil sharpener. |
24 | 25 1908: Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Civil Rights Activist, was born in New Haven CT. | 26 1797: Sojourner Truth, a slave, was born Isabelle Baumfree in Ulster County, New York. | 27 1990: Charles Johnson was awarded the National Book Award for fiction for Middle Passage. | 28 THANKSGIVING Day
1929: Motown recording executive Berry Gordon Jr., was born in Detroit, Michigan. | 29 1905: The Chicago defender began publication. | 30 1897: A.J. Sweeting patented a cigarette rolling device. |