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The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
The two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered.
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, s�
P. T. Barnum begins his career as a showman and circus entrepreneur by exhibiting Joice Heth, an octogenerian African slave whom he claims was George Washington's nursemaid.
The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
Three African soldiers in the 1st West India Regiment – Daaga, Edward Coffin and Maurice Ogston – were executed for their role in the St. Joseph Mutiny in the British colony of Trinidad.
Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin.
Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba.
Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to del�
Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.