Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights’

1912 – The Titanic sinks. Booooo!

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1947 – Jackie Robinson becomes baseball’s first black major league player when he debuts with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Yay!

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Today is the last day to file your taxes. Boooo!

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Today is National High Five Day. DOUBLE YAY!

1634 – Maryland founded by settlers sent by Lord Baltimore.

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1932 –  American writer Flannery O’Connor born.

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1965 – ev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to African-Americans.

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1996 – The redesigned $100 bill was introduced.

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2184 – Pavel Chekov is born

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