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- B01--1904 James Melton, Moultrie Ga, singer (Ford Festival) [1/2]\-
- B01021904 James Melton, Moultrie Ga, opera tenor (Ford Festival)\=
- B01051940 Dany Saval, Oakland Calif, actress (Boeing Boeing, Moon Pilot)\=
- B01071611 James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)\=
- B010819-- Kathleen Noone, actress (All My Children)\-
- B01081946 Kathleen Noone, actress (All My Children, Knots Landing)
- B010919-- Kimberly Beck Hilton, actress (Capitol) [1956]\-
- B01121876 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer\=
- B01171759 Paul Cuffe, Mass, famous African\=
- B01171962 Jim Carrey, Ontario Canada, actor (Living Color, Skip-Duck Factory)\=
- B01221949 Steve Perry, rock vocalist (Journey-Open Arms, Oh Sherry)\=
- B01221953 Steve Perry, rock vocalist (Journey-Oh Sherry)\-
- B01241943 Sharon Tate, Dallas Tx, actress (Valley of the Dolls)
- B012919-- Anthony George, actor (One Life to Live) [1925]\-
- B013019-- Daphne Ashbrook, Long Beach Calif, actress (Liz-Our Family Honor)\-
- B01301966 Daphne Ashbrook, Long Beach Calif, actress (Liz-Our Family Honor)
- D01081922 Col Charles R Young, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria
- D01091946 Countee Cullen, black poet, dies at 42 in NYC
- D01121965 Lorraine Hanbsberry, dies in NYC at 34
- D011619-- Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed [1939]\-
- D01161901 Hiram Revels, dies at 73
- D01161939 Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed
- D01241885 Martin R Delany, politician & black nationalist, dies at 72
- I0113 367 [Christian] Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers
- S01--1989 Johnny Carson does monolouge with open fly (day Sean & Madonna split)\=
- S01011804 Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaims independence of Haiti
- S01011831 William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
- S01011854 Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
- S01011916 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published
- S01011991 Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak
- S01021879 Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
- S01021965 Voter registration drive, led by Martin Luther King Jr, starts
- S01021970 US population is 293,200,000. Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
- S01021974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
- S01031947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
- S01031961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor
- S01031966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
- S01031969 Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
- S01041971 Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is
- S01041971 Congesssional Black Caucus organizes
- S01041991 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
- S01051804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
- S01051875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss
- S01051943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to
- S01051943Cprotest segregation in armed forces
- S01051975C14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon
- S01051975Cbridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks
- S01061773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
- S01061832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
- S01061839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"\=
- S01061967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate,
- S01061967CPhillipines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
- S01061971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
- S01071608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
- S01071868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
- S01071868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
- S01071950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
- S01071972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die\
- S01081867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite Pres Johnson's veto
- S01081962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 91 die (Neth)
- S01091866 Fisk University establishes
- S01091953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
- S01091959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
- S01091967 Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
- S01091991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis\=
- S01101811 Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
- S01101870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
- S01101883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- S01101883Ckills 71. General Tom Thumb of P.T. Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
- S01101947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf
- S01101947Csouth of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
- S01101962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3.500
- S01101991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
- S01111892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
- S01111936 Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
- S01111954 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche. 10 die (Austria)
- S01111961 Racial riot at University of Georgia
- S01111966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
- S01111991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
- S01121903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
- S01121948 US Supreme Court decision (Sipuel v Oklahoma State Board of Regents)
- S01121952 University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
- S01121954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115
- S01131869 National convention of black leaders meets in Wash DC
- S01131873 P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
- S01131915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000
- S01131991 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam
- S01131993 Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena
- S01141868 SC constitutional convention, meets with a black majority
- S01141868 NC constitiutional convention meets in Releigh
- S01141873 P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
- S01141874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of the lower house of the Miss legislature
- S01141990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf
- S01151919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
- S01151950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
- S01151951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
- S01161776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
- S01161865 Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
- S01161871 Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
- S01161941 War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
- S01161962 Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
- S01161966 Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
- S01161967 Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent
- S01161967 1st black government installed in Bahamas
- S01171718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53\=
- S01171874 Armed Democrats seize Texas govt ending Radical Reconstruction
- S01171966 Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
- S01171970 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
- S01181947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
- S01181962 Southern University closed due to demonstrations
- S01181991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
- S01201788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
- S01201868 Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
- S01201870 Hiram R Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis
- S01201870 "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard
- S01211830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
- S01211960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook S Afr, 417 die of methane poisoning
- S01211964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
- S01211990 Bob Goodenow suceeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director
- S01231964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections\=
- S01231973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
- S01231973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
- S01251890 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
- S01251904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
- S01251937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
- S01261863 War Dept authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops
- S01271891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
- S01271949 Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China
- S01291908 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
- S01291913 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
- S01301797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
- S01301800 US population: 5,308,483. Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
- S01301945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c. 7,700 die\=
- S01301956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
- S01301960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
- S01311865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
- S01311920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
- S01311953 "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die
- S01311953 Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000
- S01311962 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
- B01061957 C Michael Foale, Louth England, astronaut (STS 45)\=
- B01161955 Jerry M Linenger, Mt Clemens Mich, USN Commander/astronaut
- B01211950 Joseph R Tanner, Danville Ill, astronaut
- S01221992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
- B01241952 William F Readdy, Quonset Point Rhode Island, astronaut (STS 42)\=
- B01281950 David C Hilmer, Iowa, USMC/astronaut (STS 51-J, 26, 36, 42)\=
- S01301992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands