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2025 - 1WednesdayArt Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin' - All About Jazz
- 2Thursday1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon sworn in as Mayor of DC
- 3Friday1997 - Bryant Gumble resigns after 15 years as host of NBC's Today Show
- 4Saturday1985 - Congressman William H. Gray is elected chairman
- 5Sunday1943 - George Washington Carver Day
- 6Monday1867 - The Peabody Fund is established
- 7Tuesday1986 - Howard Beach Incident
- 8Wednesday1989 - Oldest Integration Law Suit Settled
- 9Thursday1989 - Time, Inc. agrees to sell NYT Cable for $420
- 10Friday1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded
- 11Saturday1865 - Confederacy ponders to enlist black troops
- 12Sunday1971 - The Congressional Black Caucus organized
- 13Monday1999 - Michael Jordan announces his second retirement from the NBA.
- 14Tuesday1990 - Lawrence Douglas Wilder assumes title as governor
- 15Wednesday1929 - Martin Luther King Jr. Born
- 16Thursday2003 - Richard Parsons, chief executive, is tapped to be the next chairman of AOL Time
- 17Friday1942 - Birthday Muhammad Ali(Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr) was born on this date
- 18Saturday1981 - First Black professional hockey player
- 19Sunday1969 - UCLA names building after Ralph Bunche
- 20Monday2001 - First Black Secretary of State: Colin L. Powell
- 21Tuesday1971 - Twelve Black congressman boycotted Richard Nixon's
- 22Wednesday1981 - Samuel Pierce is named Secretary of HUD
- 23Thursday1964 - 24th Amendment
- 24Friday1962 - Jackie Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 25Saturday1972 - Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign
- 26Sunday1948 - Executive Order 9981, to end segregation in US Armed Forces is signed
- 27Monday1961 - World renowned opera singer debuts
- 28Tuesday1989 - Darkie Tooth Paste Changed
- 29Wednesday1970 - Arthur Ashe, first Black male to win Wimbledon, is denied entry
- 30Thursday1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard
- 31Friday1988 - Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams Super Bowl MVP
