Three million Ukrainians in need of humanitarian assistance – UN

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Three million Ukrainians in need of humanitarian assistance – UN

He painted a grim picture of the shelling of urban centres across Ukraine.

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Congressman Charles Diggs, Jr. resigns

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Born: 4/8/1938 Kumasi, GhanaKofi Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for their work for a better organized and more

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Opera singer Marian Anderson born

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Ellison, Ralph (Ralph Waldo Ellison), 1914–94, African-American author, b. Oklahoma City studied Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee Univ.). Originally a trumpet player and aspiring composer, he moved (1936) to New York City, where he met Langston Hughes , who became his mentor, and became friends

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1827

Sojourner Truth

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1843

City University of New York had open admissions

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1970

Charles H. Mahoney

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Aug

7

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First recorded use of oboe in jazz

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The Manumission of Monimia Travers: A Slave Freed at Fort Vancouver

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Death of Ralph J. Bunche

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1971

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Thelonious Monk

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First Black Secretary General of UN

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Fiftieth Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation

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Nationalists disrupted UN session on Congo

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1970

The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

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Harry Belafonte born

Singer/Actor Harry Belafonte is born in New York.

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1927

Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief US Delegate to the United Nations

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1976

Poet Countee Cullen wins Phi Beta Kappa award.

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28

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1947

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Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN

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