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January 3, 1966 Samuel Leamon Younge, Jr. was shot to death after he tried to use the “Whites only” restroom…

January 4, 1935 Floyd Patterson, hall of fame boxer, was born in Waco, North Carolina. Patterson started boxing at the…

January 5, 1931 Alvin Ailey, Jr., choreographer and activist, was born in Rogers, Texas. Ailey did not become serious about…

January 6, 1968 John Daniel Singleton, film director, screenwriter, and producer, was born in Los Angeles, California. Singleton earned his…

January 7, 1941 Frederick Drew Gregory, the first African American to pilot a space shuttle, was born in Washington, D.…

January 8, 1811 The German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt that took place in the Territory of Orleans, began.…

January 9, 1923 of Fort Bragg, California received patent number 1,441,383 for a brake testing machine. His invention tested…

January 10, 1949 George Edward Foreman, hall of fame boxer, was born in Marshall, Texas. Foreman had an amateur boxing…