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African American and Other Historical Anniversaries
2014
January 5, 1864: George Washington Carver is born. (150th Anniversary)
January 9, 1914: The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African American students at Howard
University. (100th Anniversary)
January 12, 1964: Zanibar Revolution (50th Anniversary)
January 23, 1964: 24th Amendment passed (50th Anniversary)
January 31, 1914: Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer, is born. (100th Anniversary)
February 3, 1964: Protesting against alleged de facto school racial segregation, Black and Puerto Rican
groups in New York City boycott public school. (25th Anniversary)
February 7, 1964: A Jackson, Mississippi jury, trying Byron De Le Beckwith for the murder of Medgar
Evans in June 1963, reports that it cannot reach a verdict, resulting a mistrial. (50th Anniversary)
February 25, 1964 Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, FL is crowned
the heavyweight champion of the world. (50th Anniversary)
March 1, 1914: Ralph Ellison, American writer, is born. (100th Anniversary)
April 2, 1964: The 36th Academy Awards ceremony is held. Sidney Poitier is the first African-American
to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Actor in a Leading Role in Lilies of the Field. (50th
Anniversary)
April 12, 1864: The Fort Pillow Massacre in Tennessee on April 12, 1864, in which more than 300
African-American soldiers were killed, was one of the most controversial events of the American Civil
War (1861-65). Though most of the Union garrison surrendered, and thus should have been taken as
prisoners of war, the soldiers were killed. The Confederate refusal to treat these troops as traditional
prisoners of war infuriated the North, and led to the Union’s refusal to participate in prisoner
exchanges. (150th Anniversary)
May 13, 1914: Joe Louis, American boxer, is born. (100th Anniversary)
May 22, 1914: Sun Ra, American musician, is born. (100th Anniversary)
June 12, 1964: Nelson Mandela and 7 other are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and
sent to the Robben Island prison. (50th Anniversary)
June 15, 1864: Arlington National Cemetery is established in the United States when 200 acres (0.81
km2) of the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home Arlington House are officially set aside as a military
cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. (150th Anniversary)
June 21, 1964 - Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are
murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local Klansmen and a deputy sheriff. (50th Anniversary)
June 28, 1914: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria: 19-year-old Serbian nationalist
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, triggering the July Crisis. (100th Anniversary)
July 2, 1964: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing racial
segregation in the United States. (50th Anniversary)
August 1, 1914: Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica. (100th
Anniversary)
August 2, 1964: The bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and
James Chaney were found. (50th Anniversary)
November 8, 1864: President Abraham Lincoln is elected to a second term (150th Anniversary)
December 10, 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. King
becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize which was awarded to him for leading nonviolent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States. (50th Anniversary)
December 11, 1964: African American singer and song writer Sam Cooke was born. (50th Anniversary)
December 24, 1814: The Treaty of Ghent is signed officially ending the War of 1812 (War of 1812 Ends)
2015
January 31, 1865 - Abolishment of slavery by 13th Amendment (150th Anniversary)
March 7, 1965 - “Bloody Sunday”: First march from Selma to Montgomery for voter’s rights (50th
Anniversary)
June 19, 1865 - “Juneteenth Independence Day”: Union Army ordered the end of slavery in Texas (150th
Anniversary)
2016
February 1, 2016: 1966 - Samuel Massie Jr. was appointed the first AA faculty member of the U.S. Naval
Academy (50th Anniversary)
October 15, 1966: Black Panther Party founded (50th Anniversary)
2017
April 7, 1867 - Johnson C. Smith University is founded (150th Anniversary)
2018
June 12, 1968 - “Loving Day”: Anti-miscegenation laws struck down by Supreme Court. (50th Anniversary)
September 22, 1992 - Mae Jemison became the first AA woman in space. (25th Anniversary)
2019
2020
March 30, 1870 - AA men given right to vote by 15th Amendment (150th Anniversary)