365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 20 June 20, 1894 Lloyd Augustus Hall, chemist and inventor, was born in Elgin, Illinois, but raised in Aurora, Illinois. Hall… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 21 June 21, 1915 The United States Supreme Court in Guinn v. United States ruled that the grandfather clauses in the… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 22 June 22, 1947 Octavia Estelle Butler, science fiction writer, was born in Pasadena, California. Butler began writing at the age… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 23 June 23, 1940 Wilma Glodean Rudolph, the first American woman to win three Gold medals in track and field during… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 24 June 24, 1933 Samuel Jones, hall of fame basketball player, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. Jones graduated from North… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 25 June 25, 1933 James H. Meredith, the first African American student at the University of Mississippi, was born in Kosciusko,… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 26 June 26, 1956 Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr., the first African American in space to perform an extra-vehicular activity, was born… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 June 27 June 27, 1939 Frederick McKinley Jones of Minneapolis, Minnesota received patent number 2,163,754 for his invention of a ticket dispensing… Read More
