Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report / Library of Congress — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1908 Thurgood Marshall, who became the first African-American justice of the US Supreme Court, was born in Baltimore.
Sources: U.S. National Park Service ; U.S. Department of Justice
Birth
Photographer unknown, Anefo / Nationaal Archief — CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons 1925 Patrice Lumumba, future first prime minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, was born in Onalua, Belgian Congo.
Sources: South African History Online ; New York Public Library
Birth
Unknown photographer (AP press photo, c. 1963) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1925 Medgar Evers, civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was born in Decatur, Mississippi.
Sources: U.S. National Park Service ; Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
Birth
United Nations Development Programme (Flickr) — CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1948 Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician who later served as justice minister, was born.
Sources: ChimpReports ; Monitor (Kenya) ; Parliament of Kenya, National Assembly
Birth
Photo by Cecil Stoughton, White House Press Office — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, outlawing racial discrimination.
Sources: National Archives (U.S.) ; Miller Center, University of Virginia
Politics