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Ugandan residents are optimistic of a better 2022 regardless of the covid 19 pandemic.

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Alan Dupree Wheat, the first black Congressman from Kansas City, Missouri, was born in San Antonio, Texas, on October 16, 1951. He attended schools in Wichita, Kansas, and in Seville, Spain, before graduating from Airline High School in Bossier City, Louisiana, in 1968. In 1972 Wheat received

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Death of Queen Nzingha of Angola

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Bethel Baptist Institutional Church is the oldest Baptist church congregation in the state of Florida. At the end of the Civil War, Bethel Baptist Church was recognized by the court in Jacksonville to be a black church, but the history of this church extends well beyond the 1860s to the 1830s and

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Ragsdale, Marguerita (1948- )

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Born on February 21, 1945 in Seattle to parents, Nelmon and Johnnie Carter Gossett, Larry Gossett has been a dedicated public servant for over 40 years. After graduating from Franklin High School, he was a VISTA volunteer in Harlem (1966-1967). Gossett attended the University of Washington, where

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Feb

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1945

Savage, Augustus Alexander, “Gus” (1925 - )

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Danquah, J.B. (1895-1965)

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1965

Current government officials

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Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)

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Bradley, Tom (1917-1998)

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Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr.

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Dec

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1967

Royal African Company

Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of

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1958

M.V.B. Brown patents home security system

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1969

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1954

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South Africas truth commission, looking into abuses during the apartheid era, began its public hearings.

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1996

Smalls, Robert (1839-1915)

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Ratification of the 13th Amendment

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1865

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