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2022 - 1SaturdayArt Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin' - All About Jazz
- 2Sunday1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon sworn in as Mayor of DC
- 3Monday1997 - Bryant Gumble resigns after 15 years as host of NBC's Today Show
- 4Tuesday1985 - Congressman William H. Gray is elected chairman
- 5Wednesday1943 - George Washington Carver Day
- 6Thursday1867 - The Peabody Fund is established
- 7Friday1986 - Howard Beach Incident
- 8Saturday1989 - Oldest Integration Law Suit Settled
- 9Sunday1989 - Time, Inc. agrees to sell NYT Cable for $420
- 10Monday1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded
- 11Tuesday1865 - Confederacy ponders to enlist black troops
- 12Wednesday1971 - The Congressional Black Caucus organized
- 13Thursday1999 - Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from the NBA.
- 14Friday1990 - Lawrence Douglas Wilder assumes title as governor
- 15Saturday1929 - Martin Luther King Jr. Born
- 16Sunday2003 - Richard Parsons, chief executive, is tapped to be the next chairman of AOL Time
- 17Monday1942 - Birthday Muhammad Ali(Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr) was born on this date
- 18Tuesday1981 - First Black professional hockey player
- 19Wednesday1969 - UCLA names building after Ralph Bunche
- 20Thursday2001 - First Black Secretary of State: Colin L. Powell
- 21Friday1971 - Twelve Black congressman boycotted Richard Nixon's
- 22Saturday1981 - Samuel Pierce is named Secretary of HUD
- 23Sunday1964 - 24th Amendment
- 24Monday1962 - Jackie Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 25Tuesday1972 - Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign
- 26Wednesday1948 - Executive Order 9981, to end segregation in US Armed Forces is signed
- 27Thursday1961 - World renowned opera singer debuts
- 28Friday1989 - Darkie Tooth Paste Changed
- 29Saturday1970 - Arthur Ashe, first Black male to win Wimbledon, is denied entry
- 30Sunday1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard
- 31Monday1988 - Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams Super Bowl MVP
