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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Joe Louis ~
(World Heavyweight Champion) becomes the first Black boxer of his rank to score a one round knockout
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7/29/2007,
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Joe Louis ~
(World Heavyweight Champion) becomes the first Black boxer to draw a million dollar gate
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Birks "Dizzy" Gilespie ~
(famed musician) dies
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2738 times
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Posted by:
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10/21/2007,
in category "People"
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ~
(famed musician) born
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Brown ~
(abolitionist and martyr of the Harper's Ferry Insurrection) born
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Posted by:
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12/1/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
John Brown ~
(White abolitionist) is hanged in Charlestown, Virginia, for being the leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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9/7/2007,
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On this date:
John Brown Russwurm ~
became the third Black man to graduate from a college in the U.S.
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Posted by:
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9/15/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
John Coltrane ~
(innovative and famed jazz musician) born
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3741 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
John Coltrane ~
(innovative and famed jazz musician) dies
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3126 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Gregg Fee ~
(Kentucky abolitionist and founder of Berea College) born
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3999 times
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John H Conyers ~
becomes first African American to enter the US Naval Academy
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4731 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John H Johnson ~
(publisher of
Ebony Magazine and
Jet ) born
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4271 times
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John H Johnson ~
publishes first issue of
Ebony magazine
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3138 times
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Hope Franklin ~
(historian) born
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2711 times
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3/26/2009,
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On this date:
John Hope Franklin ~
dies at the age of 94.
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2946 times
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Langston ~
(Congressman) born
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3359 times
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
John Lee ~
(first Black commisioned officer in the US Navy) is assigned
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3595 times
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Posted by:
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8/19/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
John Lee Hooker ~
(blues singer and guitarist) born
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3291 times
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Posted by:
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8/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Merrick ~
opens North Carolina Mutual for business
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3478 times
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Posted by:
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8/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Merrick ~
organizes North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
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3105 times
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Posted by:
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8/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Merrick ~
(coorganizer of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company) born
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3258 times
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Posted by:
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8/8/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
John Merrick ~
Dies. He helped in creating the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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2824 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
John Oliver Killens ~
(novelist) born
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2747 times
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Posted by:
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2/1/2008,
in category "People"
On this date:
John P. Parker ~
(abolitionist and businessman) is born in Norfolk, Virginia
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3976 times
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Posted by:
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8/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
John R Lynch ~
presides over Republican National Convention
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3831 times
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