1951 - Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment,deactivated in Korea

On this date in 1951, The Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment, last of all-Black units military units authorized by Congress in 1866, deactivated in Korea.

Today's Other facts

1966 - Black Panther party founded in Oakland, California.
1991 - Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell becomes dean of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
1977 - Soccer great Pele retires
1962 - 12,000 federal soldiers restore order on the University of Mississippi campus.
1960 - Nigeria proclaimed independent
1952 - Joe Black become first Black Pitcher to Win a World Series Game
1952 - Juanita James was born.
1945 - R&B singer and songwriter, Donny Hathaway was born

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