Posted by: default,
on 10/1/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
"Chubby Checker" ~
(entertainer) Earnest Evans is born. He popularized "The Twist."
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Posted by: default,
on 10/21/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
"Pelé" Edson Arantes do Nascimento ~
(African-Brazilian soccer player) is born in Três Corações, Brazil
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Posted by: default,
on 7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Miles ~
patents the elevator
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Posted by: default,
on 7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Philip Randolph ~
(activist and labor leader) born
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Posted by: default,
on 8/19/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Philip Randolph ~
organizes the Sleeping Car Porter's Union
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Posted by: default,
on 7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Philip Randolph ~
(activist and labor leader) dies
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Posted by: default,
on 8/6/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A. W. Wilson ~
the minister and activist, whose church (Holt Street Baptist) helped fuel the 1955 civil rights protests, dies at age 87 ...
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Posted by: default,
on 7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Abraham Lincoln ~
reads the first draft of Emancipation Proclamation to the cabinet
Views: 624 times
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Posted by: default,
on 7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Abraham Lincoln ~
signs bill providing schools for Black children
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Posted by: braithwaite,
on 8/6/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Absalom Jones ~
ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church
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