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- B08051624 William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
- B080519-- Ami Foster, actress (Margaux-Punky Brewster) [1975]\-
- B080619-- Dorian Harewood, Dayton Oh, actor (Full Metal Jacket, Sparkle)\-
- B08081949 Larry Wilcox, actor (Last Ride of the Dalton Gang)\-
- B08111952 Ann Michelle, England, actress (Virigin Witch)
- B08141930 Earl Weaver, St Louis Mo, manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)\=
- B081819-- Greta Lind, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)\-
- B08181951 Candice Earley, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)\=
- B08181968 Greta Lind, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
- B082419-- Joe Regalbuto, Bkln NY, actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown)\-
- B08241949 Joe Regalbuto, Bkln NY, actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown)\=
- B082519-- David Canary, Elwood In, actor (Bonanza, Adam-All My Children)\-
- B082519-- Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
- B082819-- Marla Adams, actress (Gotcha, Secret Storm, Young & Restless)\=
- B08281925 Donald O'Connor, dancer/comedian/actor (Francis, Anything Goes)\-
- B08311954 Tula, [Barry Kenneth Cossey], Engld, transexual (For Your Eyes Only)
- D08041891 George Washington Williams, dies at 41 in Blackpool England
- D08051900 James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
- D08071867 Ira Aldridge, actor dies at 63 in Lodes Poland
- D08091969 Sharon Tate, actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang
- D08091975 Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46
- D08111868 Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
- D08201991 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
- D08221978 Jomo Kenyatta, president of Kenya, dies at 83
- D08241991 Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
- D08241991 Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87
- D08271963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana\=
- D08271975 Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83\=
- D08281955 Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
- H0806 [Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
- H0808 [Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1960)
- H0820 [Senegal] Independence Day (1960)
- S08011619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
- S08011834 Slavery abolished in British empire
- S08011867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
- S08011918 Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
- S08011936 Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
- S08011943 Race riot in Harlem NYC
- S08011944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
- S08011961 Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
- S08011990 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
- S08021964 Race riot in Jersey City NJ
- S08031990 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
- S08041953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
- S08051966 Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
- S08051966CBeatles release "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK\=
- S08061854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
- S08061870 White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
- S08071893 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
- S08071954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
- S08071960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
- S08071966 Race riot in Lansing Michigan
- S08071970 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San
- S08071970CRafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
- S08081796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
- S08081868 Quake destroyes Arica Chile
- S08081960 Ivory Coast declares independence
- S08081968 Race riot in Miami Florida
- S08081990 Iraq annexes Kuwait
- S08091960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
- S08091961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
- S08091990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
- S08101827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
- S08101835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
- S08101944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
- S08101981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
- S08111960 Chad declares independence
- S08111964 Race riot in Paterson NJ
- S08111965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
- S08121964 Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
- S08121965 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
- S08121990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf
- S08121990Ccrisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
- S08131892 Baltimore Afro-American forms
- S08131906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
- S08131953 Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
- S08141862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
- S08141876 Prairie View State University forms
- S08141908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
- S08141930 Earl Weaver, St Louis, baseball manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)\-
- S08141970 City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
- S08151843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
- S08151931 Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
- S08151962 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
- S08151964 Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
- S08151975 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
- S08151979 Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
- S08161890 Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
- S08161990 Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
- S08171955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut\=
- S08171955CRiver killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage\=
- S08171982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
- S081819-- Candice Earley, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)\-
- S08181968 Greta Lind, actress (Katie-All My Children)\-
- S08181982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)\=
- S08191954 Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
- S08191958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
- S08201944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
- S08201960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation; declaring independence
- S08201964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
- S08201990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
- S08211831 Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)\=
- S08211927 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
- S08211972 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
- S08221791 Haitian Revolution begins
- S08221917Csets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers\=
- S08221979 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
- S08221990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves
- S08231900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
- S08231917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
- S08231989 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings
- S08241854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
- S08241950 Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
- S08251862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
- S08251915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage\=
- S08251925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
- S08261874 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
- S08271667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)\=
- S08271918 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
- S08271966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
- S08281921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
- S08281949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
- S08281957 Daniel Stern, actor (Wonder Years, City Slickers, Home Alone)\-
- S08281964 Race riot in Philadelphia
- S08291957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
- S08291970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
- S08301843 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
- S08301854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
- S08301956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
- S08301969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
- S08301988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen\=
- S08311970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
- S08311979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
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- B08061950 Winston E Scott, Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut
- B08071956 Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
- B08121951 Charles E Brady Jr, Pinehurst NC, USN Commander/astronaut
- B08151947 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)\=
- B08191946 Charles F Bolden Jr, Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, STS 45)\=
- B08241962 Mary E Weber, Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronaut