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 * 1959: Lorraine Hansberry becomes first black playright New York Critics award
* Frank Robinson named Cleveland Indians manager - 1975
* Granville T. Woods patents apparatus for transmission of messages by electricity
* Hank Aaron hits 715 home run - 1974
* 1816: African Methodist Episcopal Church formed
* Congress overrides presidential veto of Civil Rights Bill - 1866
* 1816: Richard Allen becomes first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Chur
* Jackie Robinson becomes first African American to play major league baseball
* 1997: World largest African-American History museum opens in Detroit
* 1983: Harold Washington becomes first black mayor of Chicago
* Confederates attack Fort Sumter - 1861
* 1997: Tiger Woods wins Masters Golf Tournament
* Historian Carter G. Woodson, author of "The Miseducation of the Negro", died
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