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2024 - 1Friday1951 - Jet magazine founded
- 2Saturday1983 - President Ronald Reagan signs law designating the third Monday in January Martin
- 3Sunday1992 - Carol Mosely Braun elected to US Senate
- 4Monday1988 - Twenty Million Dollar Gift to Spelman College
- 5Tuesday1974 - Shirley Chisholm elected to Congress
- 6Wednesday1973 - Thomas Bradley was elected mayor of Los Angeles
- 7Thursday1991 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix inducted into Hall of Fame
- 8Friday1933 - Actress Ester Rolle born on this date
- 9Saturday1901 - Guardian Newspaper was founded on this date
- 10Sunday1957 - Charlie Sifford became the first Black person to win a major professional golf tournament.
- 11Monday1969 - George R. Carruthers patents Image Converter
- 12Tuesday1922 - Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority Inc. founded
- 13Wednesday1985 - Dwight Gooden wins Cy Young Award
- 14Thursday1950 - Lydia Holmes patents wood toys
- 15Friday1990 - On this day, the US Golf Association bans racial & gender discrimination.
- 16Saturday1967 - Actress Lisa Bonet is born
- 17Sunday1972 - Andrew Young elected to Congress
- 18Monday1956 - Comedian Sinbad is born
- 19Tuesday1953 - Roy Campanella named most valuable player of the National Baseball League
- 20Wednesday1976 - Gymnast Dominique Dawes born on this date.
- 21Thursday1933 - S.H. Love patents improved vending machine
- 22Friday1930 - Elijah Muhammad founds the Nation of Islam in Detroit.
- 23Saturday1980 - 1000 people from twenty five states form the National Black Independent Party.
- 24Sunday1865 - Black Codes enacted
- 25Monday2001 - Pop singer Melanie Thornton dies
- 26Tuesday1941 - Singer, Tina Turner was born
- 27Wednesday1976 - Actor Jaleel White is born
- 28Thursday1950 - F.M. Jones patents 2-cycle engine
- 29Friday1908 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and civil rights activist was born
- 30Saturday2001 - First Abiocor recipient dies
