African American History Calendar

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October 3, 1956 - Nat King Cole becomes first Black performer to host his own TV show.

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October 4, 1864 - First Black daily newspaper, The New Orleans Tribune, founded.

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October 8, 1941 - Rev. Jesse Jackson born in Greenville, South Carolina.

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October 9, 1888 - O. B. Clare patents rail Trestle.

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October 11, 1887 - Granville T. Woods patents telephone system and apparatus.

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African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the youngest person ever to receive the award.

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Garret A. Morgan patents the gas mask.

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October 13, 1579 - Martin de Porres, the first Black saint in the Roman Catholic Church, born.

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October 14, 1964 - At age 35, Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes youngest man ever to win Nobel Peace Prize.

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October 15, 1991 - Clarence Thomas confirmed as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the second African American to serve on the court.

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October 16, 1995 - Million Man March held in Washington, D.C.

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October 17, 1888 - Capital Savings Bank of Washington, D.C., first bank for blacks, organized.

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October 20, 1898 - The first African American-owned insurance company, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, founded.

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October 22, 1953 - Clarence S. Green becomes first African American certified in neurological surgery.

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October 27, 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes first African American general in U.S. Air Force.