AROUND THE REGION
black facts
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OCT 8 - 14, 2020
OCT. 8
1941 – The Rev. Jesse Jackson, famed civil rights leader, is born in Greenville, South Carolina. 1992 – Sir Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, wins the Nobel Prize in literature. 2004 – Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental and political activist, becomes the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
OCT. 9
1806 – Benjamin Banneker, famed African-American astronomer, scientist, almanac author and surveyor, dies in Baltimore County, Maryland, at age 74.
OCT. 10
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1901 – Frederick Douglass Patterson, founder of the United Negro College Fund, is born in Washington, D.C. 1917 – Groundbreaking jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
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1932 – Social activist and comedian Dick Gregory (top) is born in St. Louis. 1999 – Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain dies in his Bel Air, California, home of a heart attack at age 63.
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1887 – Black inventor Alexander Miles receives patent for automatic opening and closing elevator door. 1991 – Iconic comedian Redd Foxx (right), best known for his starring role in the ‘70s sitcom “Sanford and Son,” dies in Los Angeles at 68 of a heart attack.
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OCT. 13
1898 – Lawyer and judge Edith S. Sampson, the first Black U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations, is born in Pittsburgh. 1926 – Jesse L. Brown, the first African-American aviator in the U.S. Navy, is born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 1970 – Famed political activist Angela Davis is arrested in New York City and charged with unlawful flight to avoid persecution for her alleged role in a California courthouse shootout.
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OCT. 14
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1834 – Maryland-born Henry Blair patents the corn planter, becoming the second-ever African-American inventor to receive a patent. 1919 – Famed Black activist Marcus Garvey is shot inside his Harlem office, wounded in his leg and scalp. He recovers, but his assailant, who claimed he was sent to shoot Garvey by the district attorney, died a day later after jumping 30 feet from a jailhouse window. 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial inequality in America. WI
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