U. S. shuts down Chinese consulate in Houston

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U. S. shuts down Chinese consulate in Houston

Workers frantically burned documents in the courtyard of the Chinese consulate in Houston after the U.S. abruptly told China to shutter its activities there. 'We ...

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1984

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13

1970

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Texas constitutional convention

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1868

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Cottonpickers organized union and strike

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Independence Bank of Chicago organized.

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3

1964

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22

1963

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Philips, 1st Black nominated president

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28

1968

Martin Luther King Jr

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20

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1919

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1891

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress

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1928

Howard University,in Washington, D.C. named for General Oliver O. Howard, opened

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1867

Grover Cleveland Wins Election

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1884

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1957

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1911

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1956

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1862

Death of pianist Art Tatum

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1956

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1935

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1975

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