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Taken from blackfacts.com

1. 1999 – White supremacist John King, one of three white men accused of chaining James Byrd to a pickup and dragging him along a Texas road until he was decapitated, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black since slavery ended….

2. 1991 – Adrienne Mitchell, first African American woman to die in combat in the Persian Gulf War is killed in her military barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia

3. 1987 – Edward Daniel Nixon, former president of the Georgia NAACP, died at age 87.

4. 1978 – Death of Daniel (“Chappie”) James Jr. (58), retired Air Force general and the first Black promoted to four-star rank, at the Air Force Academy, Colorado.

5. 1975 – Death of Elijah Muhammad (77), leader of the Nation of Islam, in Chicago. He was succeeded by his son, Wallace D. Muhammad.

6. 1971 – President Nixon met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and appointed a White House panel to study a list of recommendations made by the group.

7. 1964 -Cassius Clay becomes world heavyweight boxing champion.

8. 1948 – Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister

9. 1870 – Hirman R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress.

10. 1839 – Seminoles and their Black allies shipped from Tampa Bay, Florida, to the West.