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1926 Carter Woodson initiates "NegroHistory Week"
Explore DC (W)
Born—1911 Langston Hughes, African-American poet
Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)
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2002 Groundhog Day
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1870 15th Amendment Black suffrage ratified
The Charters of Freedom (W)
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1822 Free American Blacks Settle Liberia
Art & Life inAfrica Online (W)
1914 US congress approves Burnett anti-immigration law
Where I Come From (LP)
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1917 Mexican Constitution adopted
LANIC (W)
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1936 4th Winter Olympics open in Germany
US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Winter Games (W)
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1812 Born- British novelist Charles Dickens
Victorian Web (W)
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1887 Dawes Act passed-Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship
Native Web (W)
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1995 Bernard Harris first Black astronaut to take spacewalk, dedicates it to achievements of all African Americans
America's Library (W)
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1945 FDR, Stalin, Churchill,sign Yalta Agreement
Avalon Project (W)
1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins election, Ghana
Art & Life in Africa Online (W)
1951 Nelson Mandela released from prison
African Voices: History (W)
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1809 Born-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president
The American President (W)
2002 Chinese New Year- Year of the Horse
AskAsia: Korean Zodiac (W)
2002 Mardi Gras
The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP)
What Masks Reveal (LP)
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1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
America's Library (W)
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Valentine's Day
1817 Born- Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP)
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1483 Born-Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty, India
1564 Born-Galileo Galilei, astronomer
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP)
1898 Battleship Maine blows up; US begins Spanish-Cuban-American War
LANIC (W)
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1688 Quakers, Mennonites first whites to protest slavery
Avalon Project (W)
1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published
Mark Twain & American Humor (LP)
2002 President's Day, US
I Do Solemnly Swear (LP)
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1674 Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes English
What They Left Behind (LP)
1861 Russian Tzar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
Bucknell Russian Studies (W)
1919 WEB DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress, Paris
Harlem 1900-1940 (W)
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1805 Born- Angelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyer
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-1940 (W)
1962 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth
Into The Space Age (W)
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1795 Freedom of worship was established in France under the constitution that came out of the French Revolution of 1789
1885 Washington Monument dedicated
Explore DC (W)
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1732 Born- George Washington, 1st US President
The Living Symbol (LP)
Great Speeches: Mark Twain on "Defense of General Funston" (W)
George Washington Papers (W)
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2002 Eid al-Adhha- Muslim Feast of Sacrifice
Asia Source: Islam (W)
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1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for vioating Tenure of Office Act
Harpweek (W)
1987 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action
Oyex, Oyez, Oyez: US vs. Paradise (W)
2002 Purim begins at sundown
Where I Come From (LP)
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1885 Berlin Act- European powers partition Africa
Art & Life in Africa Online: Issues in African History (W)
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1807 Born- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet
American Verse Project (W)
1902 Born- John Steinbeck, writer
Dust Bowl Days (LP)
1933 Nazis burn Reichstag
Holocaust and Resistance (LP)
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1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
New Perspectives on the West (W)
1940 Richard Wright's Native Son published
Modern American Poetry (W)
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