T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

The Calendar
  June 2008
 

Learn, Love and Forgive...

   
 
June 01
  1875 - James A. Healey ordained Catholic Bishop
1959 - Constitution Day / Victory Day in Tunisia
Madaraka Day in Kenya
June 02
1943 - 99th Pursuit Squadron's 1st combat mission
June 03
1884 - Granville T. Woods patented steam boiler furnace
Irma P. Hall's birthday
New Moon
June 04
1665 - 1st Baptist Church in US founded
Revolution Day in Ghana
June 05
1907 - Jockey Jimmy Lee made racing history
June 06

1968 - Robert F. Kennedy assassinated

June 07
1952 - G.T. Sampson patented clothes dryer
June 08
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruleed that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks
June 09
1911- Carnegie Corp. was chartered to aid black libraries
June 10
1794 - Richard Allen started Ind. Methodist Movement
Congo: Day of National Reconciliation
First Quarter
June 11
1911 - Marcus Garvey founded Universal Negro Improvement Assoc.
June 12
1963 - Medger Evers was killed in MS
June 13
1868 - Oscar J. Dunn, ex-slave, installed as Lt. Governor of LA
1967 - President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court
June 14
1952 - Dr. Harold D. West named Pres. Of Meharry Medical College
2004 - Unveiling of the first official presidential portrait (of Bill Clinton) painted by a black person (Simmie Knox, a self-taught artist born in 1935 in Aliceville, AL).
Malawi: Freedom Day
June 15
1877 - Henry O. Flipper graduated from West Point
June 16
1804 - Dessalines declared emperor of Haiti
1976 - The Soweto riots that sparked turbulence across South Africa.
June 17
1972 - Frank Willis discovered Watergate break-in
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks' Birthday
1871 - James Weldon Johnson's Birthday
June 18
1862 - William H. Carney earned highes army medal 
Full Moon  
June 19
  1864 - Sailor Joachim Pease earned Congressional Medal
June 20
1963 - White and Black physicians protest hospital discrimination
June 21
  1821 - A.M.E. Zion Church organized, NYC
June 22
1938 - Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling
June 23
1863 - 80 black recruits reported to PA army camp
June 24
1877 - Clinton Freaves, army soldier, cited for valor
June 25
1876 - Sioux Indians defeated Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana
Mozambique: Independence Day. (1975- Mozambique achieved independence from Portugal)
June 26
1959 - Prince Edward County, VA abandoned public school system
Last Quarter
June 27
1935 - A. Phillip Randolph named pres. Of 1st black labor union
Djibouti: Independence Day.
June 28
1770 - PA school for blacks opened by Quakers 
June 29
1870 - J.W. Smith wrote "The Colored Cadet: Hardships at West Point"
June 30
1917 - Lena Horne, birthday
Congo: Independence Day
 
 
 
     
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