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1984 – MICHAEL JACKSON, WINS 8 GRAMMYS

Michael Jackson wins eight Grammy Awards for his critical and commercially successful album, "Thriller” which still remains one of the top-grossing albums of all time.

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1872 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE LAWYER IN THE U.S. 

Charlotte Ray graduates from Howard Law School becoming the first African American female lawyer.

1988 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WINTER OLYMPIC MEDALIST

Figure skater Debi Thomas wins a Bronze Medal becoming the first black to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.

1999 – OLUSEGUN OBASANJO BECOMES NIGERIA'S FIRST ELECTED PRESIDENT IN OVER A DECADE

Olusegun Obasanjo a retired Nigerian Army General, a Christian of Yoruba descent won the 1999 elections as the People's Democratic Party candidate with 62.6% of the vote.

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1965 – CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST JIMMIE LEE JACKSON DIED AFTER BEING SHOT BY STATE POLICE IN MARION, AL

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1853 – THE FIRST BLACK YMCA ORGANIZED IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

1870 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SERVE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND IN THE U.S. CONGRESS

Hirman R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress.

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1864 – REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER BECOMES THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE TO RECEIVE A MEDICAL DEGREE (M.D.) FROM THE NEW ENGLAND FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE   

1922 – THE HOME OF FREDERICK DOUGLAS IS MADE INTO A NATIONAL SHRINE

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1914 – JAMES CAMERON BORN

February 23, 1914 - June 11, 2006 (92)

James Cameron activist and founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum born. 

1925 – POLITICIAN LOUIS STOKES BORN

February 23, 1925 (87) 

Politician Louis Stokes born in Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives. 

He was elected to the House in 1968, representing the 21st District on Cleveland's East Side. He shifted to the newly created 11th District, covering much of the same area following a 1992 redistricting. Stokes served 15 terms in total, retiring in 1999. 

He is ironically a cousin of Rick James.

1979 – FIRST BLACK GENERAL IN THE MARINE CORPS

Frank E. Peterson Jr. is named the first Black general in the Marine Corps.

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1979 – ST. LUCIA GAINS INDEPENDENCE 

The Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia gains Independence from the United Kingdom.

1989 – COL. FREDERICK GREGORY BECOMES THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO COMMAND A SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION 

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1936 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN ELECTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BORN

February 21, 1936 - January 17, 1996 (60)

Barbara Jordan born in Houston, Texas.

1961 – OTIS BOYKIN PATENTS ELECTRICAL RESISTOR

Otis Boykin, Inventor, patented the Electrical Resistor the device used in all guided missiles and IBM computers, plus several other electronic devices.

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1900 – J.F. BICKERING PATENTS AIRSHIP INVENTION

J.F. Bickering patents airship invention

1934 – THE OPERA “FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS”, BY VIRGIL THOMPSON AND GERTRUDE STEIN, PREMIERES ON BROADWAY PERFORMED BY AN ALL BLACK CAST  

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1923 – IN MOORE VS. DEMPSEY, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION GUARANTEED DUE PROCESS OF LAW TO BLACKS IN STATE COURTS 

2002 – FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL IN THE WINTER OLYMPICS

Vonetta Flowers became the first African American to win a Gold medal during a winter Olympic game.

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1867 – MOREHOUSE COLLEGE FOUNDED

Morehouse College was founded originally in Augusta, Georgia as the Augusta Institute before moving to Atlanta in 1879.

THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF GRENADA ERIC GAIRY BORN

February 18, 1922 - August 23, 1997 (75)

Eric Gairy born in St. Andrews parish Grenada. Gairy led his nation to Independence from Britain on February 7th 1974 however his erratic administration provoked a group led by British-trained lawyer Maurice Bishop called the New Jewel Movement (NJM) to lead demonstrations against him. 

Gairy, convinced that mankind was threatened by extra-terrestrials arriving in flying saucers repeatedly called for a special group within the UN to investigate UFO's. It was while Gairy was at the UN in 1979, attending a conference with other UFO experts, including Gen. Kurt Waldheim that a bloodless coup by the NJM put Maurice Bishop in power in Grenada. 

After the coup, Gairy remained in the United States, returning to Grenada in 1984, a few months after the Bishop regime self-destructed. His party never won another election and he himself was defeated at the polls. 

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1938 – MARY FRANCIS BERRY, THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE AS CHANCELLOR OF A MAJOR RESEARCH UNIVERSITY (UNIV. COLORADO) IS BORN  

1942 – HUEY PERCY NEWTON BORN

February 17, 1942 - August 22, 1989 (47)

Huey Percy Newton born in Monroe, Louisiana. Newton was co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, an African-American organization established to promote Black Power, civil rights and self-defense. 

Newton was fatally shot in Oakland in 1989 after a long history of drug abuse and crime.

1997 – VIRGINIA RETIRES STATE SONG GLORIFYING SLAVERY

Virginia's House of Delegates votes unanimously to retire the state song, "Carry me back to old Virginia" which glorified slavery.

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1874 – FREDERICK DOUGLASS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FREEDMAN’S BANK & TRUST. HE DIES FEB. 20TH, 1895  

1904 – DISNEYS FIRST LIVE ACTOR BORN

February 16, 1904 - July 9, 1948 (44)

James Baskett became Disney’s first live actor playing the part of Uncle Remus in Disney's "Song of the South" (1945) he would receive a posthumous Academy Award for this role in 1948 the year of his death.

1972 – WILT CHAMBERLAIN PASSES 30,000 POINTS

Wilt Chamberlain passes the 30,000 point mark during a game against the Phoenix Suns 

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ACTIVIST CLAUDIA JONES BORN

February 15, 1915 - December 24, 1964 (49)

Claudia Jones born in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago. She was a feminist, Black Nationalist, political activist, community leader, journalist, and communist in the U.S. She is also remembered in the UK as 'the mother of Notting Hill Carnival'. 

Jones is also the founder the West Indian Gazette, the first black newspaper in Britain in 1958.

1968 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO LEAD A MAJOR SYMPHONY

On this day in 1968 Henry Lewis became the conductor and musical director of the New Jersey Symphony becoming the first African-American to lead a major symphony orchestra.

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1760 – RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (A.M.E.) CHURCH IS BORN, DIES IN 1831

1991 – SUPERSOAKER (TOY WATER GUN) PATENTED

African American inventor Dr. Lonnie G. Johnson patents the SuperSoaker toy that goes on to sell over 40 million units making it the top selling toy in the US in 1991 and 1992.

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1920 – THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZED NEGRO LEAGUE WAS ESTABLISHED

The first successful organized Negro League was established at a YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri by Andrew "Rube" Foster who served as its president.

1970 – FIRST BLACK ADMITTED TO THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

Joseph L. Searles III became the first black floor member and floor broker in the New York Stock Exchange. He worked as a floor partner in the firm of Neburger, Loeb and Company.

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1865 – FIRST BLACK TO SPEAK IN THE CAPITOL

Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an African American abolitionist and orator. He was the first black minister to preach to the United States House of Representatives.

1909 – NAACP FOUNDED.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

FIRST BLACK TO COACH AN NBA PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL TEAM BORN

February 12, 1934 (78)

Bill Russell a 5 time NBA MVP for the Boston Celtics the team he led to championships 11 times first as a player then as a player/coach which also made him the first African American to coach an NBA team.

He also won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics (Melbourne, Australia) as captain of the U.S. national basketball team.

1962 – MACON, GEORGIA BUS BOYCOTT STARTS

The bus boycott opens in Macon, Georgia.

ARSENIO HALL BORN

February 12, 1955 (57)

Arsenio Hall, who became the first Black Late Night talk show host, was born on this day.

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1976 – First African American Secretary of the Army Confirmed

Clifford Leopold Alexander, Jr. (born September 21, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman and public servant. He was the first African-American Secretary of the Army.

1990 – Nelson Mandela is Released

Nelson Mandela was released from a prison after spending 27 years as a political prisoner of the racist South African government. Mandela would become the country's first black President 4 years later in 1994.

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1966 – FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN GOVERNOR OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD

Andrew Brimmer is appointed by President Johnson to become the first African-American governor of the Federal Reserve Board.

1989 – RON BROWN BECOMES FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO LEAD A MAJOR AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTY

Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

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1954 – STOCKBROKER CHRIS GARDNER BORN
February 9, 1954 (58) 

Stockbroker Chris Gardner born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gardner is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his young son.

His story is portrayed in the 2006 motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness, starring actor Will Smith.

1995 – BERNARD HARRIS, THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO WALK IN SPACE

Bernard Harris becomes the first African-American to walk in space

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1899 – BIRTHDAY OF JAZZ GUITAR PIONEER
February 8, 1899 - June 16, 1970 (71)

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson, jazz singer/guitarist who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos was born on this day in New Orleans.

1944 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORRESPONDENT

On this date in 1944, Harry S. McAlpin was the first African-American journalist admitted to a white house press conference.

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1945 – PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER FLEES HAITI 

Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.

1974 - GRENADA BECOMES INDEPENDENT FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM

The Caribbean nation of Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1991 – ARISTIDE FIRST ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF HAITI

Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.

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1820 – MONROVIA, LIBERIA ESTABLISHED

The initial group of 86 freed slaves from the United States, who came to be called Americo-Liberians, established a settlement in Christopolis (now Monrovia, named after U.S. President James Monroe.)

1993 – ARTHUR ASHE, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE TO WIN A GRAND SLAM EVENT DIES

Ashe remains the only African American player ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, or Australian Open.

Ashe died from complications from AIDS on February 6, 1993.

1898 – POET MELVIN B. TOLSON BORN

February 6, 1898 - August 29, 1966 (68)
Poet Melvin B. Tolson born in Moberly, Missouri. He was a contemporary of the Harlem Renaissance and, although he was not a participant in it, his work reflects its influences. Liberia declared Tolson as its poet laureate in 1947.

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1958 – 1ST U.S. BLACK FOREIGN MINISTER TO EUROPE

During a distinguished career that spanned nearly four decades, Clifton R. Wharton, Sr. (1899-1990) was the first black Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State. While he was not the nation’s first black ambassador, Wharton was the first black diplomat to become ambassador by rising through the ranks of the Foreign Service rather than by political appointment and the first black diplomat to lead a U.S. delegation to a European country.

After a series of postings that included Liberia, the Canary Islands, Spain and Madagascar, Wharton became consul general in Portugal in 1949. In 1953 he became consul general in Marseilles, France.

1972 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ELECTED TO THE BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME

Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

1994 – MEDGAR EVERS MURDERER CONVICTED

Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

The 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi tells the story of the murder and 1994 trial. James Woods portrayed Beckwith in an Academy Award-nominated performance.

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NKOSI JOHNSON'S BIRTHDAY

February 4, 1989 - June 1, 2001 (12)

Nkosi Johnson (February 4, 1989(1989-02-04) – June 1, 2001) was a South African child victim of HIV/AIDS, who made a powerful impact on public perceptions of the pandemic and its effects before his death at the age of 12. He was ranked fifth amongst SABC3's Great South Africans. [1] At the time of his death, he was the longest-surviving HIV-positive born child

2007 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN HEAD COACH TO WIN THE SUPER BOWL

Tony Dungy becomes the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl when his Colts defeated the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007.

1913 – ROSA PARKS – CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER WHO SPARKED THE 1955 MONTGOMERY, AL BUS BOYCOTT IS BORN.  

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1945 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESS CORRESPONDENT IN CONGRESS

Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery. 

HEROS DAY CELEBRATED IN MOZAMBIQUE

This day celebrates the struggles by Mozamicans to liberate their country from Portuguese rule. Many of the freedom fighters were either maimed or died for the cause as the struggle raged on for nearly 20 years.

2009 – ERIC H. HOLDER, JR. SWORN IN AS THE NATIONS FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN
ATTORNEY GENERAL  

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1897 - ALFRED L. CRALLE PATENTS THE ICE CREAM SCOOP

While working in Pittsburgh as a porter Alfred L. Cralle noticed that the popular treat ice cream was difficult to dispense. It stuck to spoons and ladles and usually required two hands and at least two implements to serve.

Cralle invented a mechanical device now known as the ice cream scoop and applied for a patent. On February 2, 1897, the 30-year old was granted U.S. Patent #576395.

1915 – BIOLOGIST ERNEST E. JUST RECEIVES SPINGARN MEDAL FOR RESEARCH IN FERTILIZATION AND CELL DIVISION  

1990 – DE KLERK DISMANTLES APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA

South African President FW de Klerk lifted the 30 year ban on the African National Congress. In a televised speech de Klerk also announced his commitment to release jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela.

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1865 – First African American Before US Supreme Court

February 1, 1865, the same day congress approved the 13th Amendment ending slavery, Charles Sumner introduced a motion that made Boston attorney John Rock the first black attorney to be admitted to argue in the Supreme Court of the United States. John Rock was credited with coning the phrase "black is beautiful."

1926 – Negro History Week Lunched

Dr. Carter G. Woodson introduced Negro History after he graduated from Harvard with his PHD. The scholar was disturbed by the lack of black historical information in text books. He founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, since changed to the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History in 1915. A year later Dr. Woodson started the Journal of Negro History. In 1926, he launched Negro History Week as an initiative to bring national attention to the contributions of black people throughout American history. It became a month long celebration in 1976.

Writer Langston Hughes Born 

February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967 (65)

Langston Hughes born in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.

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