Cameroon's Separatists Say Splinter Groups Kill, Abduct Fighters

Nkom, Alice (1945- )

Alice Nkom broke barriers for women by becoming the first female barrister in her country of Cameroon. She is also well known among Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) activists worldwide because of her legal advocacy for gay

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Benin

This West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, between Togo on the west and Nigeria on the east, is about the size of Tennessee. It is bounded by Burkina Faso and Niger on the north. The land consists of a narrow coastal strip that rises to a swampy, forested plateau and then to highlands in the

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2011

General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)

On January 16, 1865, Union General William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 which confiscated as Federal property a strip of coastal land extending about 30 miles inland from the Atlantic and stretching from Charleston, South Carolina 245 miles south to Jacksonville, Florida. The order

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16

1865

Alan Keyes

Though Keyes is sometimes called “Ambassador Keyes,” the title can be a bit misleading: he served as the American ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, not as ambassador to the U.N. as a whole or to any individual nation… Opposed to a homosexual lifestyle, Keyes

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Bassett, Ebenezer D. (1833-1908)

Ebenezer D. Bassett was appointed U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in 1869, making him the first African American diplomat. For eight years, the educator, abolitionist, and black rights activist oversaw bilateral relations through bloody civil warfare and coups détat on the island of

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Oct

16

1833

Folorunsho Alakija

Born: 5/4/1905 Ikorodu, NigeriaFolorunsho Alakija is a Nigerian businesswoman who is the second richest African woman after Isabel Dos Santos and also the third richest woman of African descent in the world. She is a business tycoon involved in the fashion, oil and printing industries.She is the

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Foster, Abigail Kelley

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James B. Parsons

James B. Parsons becomes the first African American chief judge of a federal court, the U.S. District Court of Chicago. In 1961, Parsons became the first African American district court judge

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Mar

19

1975

Porter Wesley, Dorothy (1905-1995)

Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), a scholar-librarian and bibliographer was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, to her father, Hayes Joseph Burnett, a physician, and her mother, Bertha Ball Burnett, a tennis champion. After receiving her A.B., from Howard University in 1928, she became the first

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Dec

29

1929

Mensah, Raphael Abraham Frank (1924-1990s)

Raphael Abraham Frank Mensah (1924-1990s), a schoolmaster and theologian, played a foundational role in bringing Mormonism to Ghana. Born in 1924 in Winneba, Gold Coast, as the British colony of Ghana was then called, he was the eldest of five children, three sons and two daughters. Mensah

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Andre Marie Mbida becomes Premiere of Cameroon

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May

15

1957

Denmark Vessey Hanged

In the same year of Gabriel Prossers death, 1800, a slave named Denmark Vesey gained his freedom in

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Jul

2

1822

Shaw v. Reno (1993)

April 20, 1993, Argued

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Dixon, Julian (1934-2000)

Born in Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1934, Julian Dixon represented part of Los Angeles in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-two years. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960, Dixon attended California State University, Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1962 and

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Aug

8

1934

Sierra leone

The trial of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, on charges of crimes against humanity began at a UN criminal court at The Hague in 2007. He was charged with abetting the violent rebel group in Sierra Leones civil war that was responsible for atrocities, which included hacking off the

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Josephine Baker born

Josephine Baker

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Jun

3

1906

Congo democratic republic

Despite instability, political progress continued. In May 2005, a new constitution was adopted by the national assembly, and overwhelmingly ratified in Jan. 2006. On July 30, 2006, the first democratic election in the country since 1970 took place. President Kabila received 44.8% of the vote, which

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The French abolish Slavery in all there territories, 1848

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Sep

16

1848

Hall, Katie Beatrice (1938-2012)

Democratic representative Katie Hall was elected to the United States Congress in 1983. Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi in 1938, she attended Mississippi Valley State University and Indiana University before teaching in the public schools of Gary Indiana. Hall was elected to the

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2012

Classical Conductor Dean Dixon born.

Classical Conductor Dean Dixon is born in 1915 in Harlem, NY. Fluent in Swedish, French and German, Dixon became one of Europes best known conductors after leaving the US in 1949. He conducted the Goteborg (Sweden) Symphony for 10 years before being named conductor for the Hessian Radio Symphony in

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Jan

10

1915

Edith Sampson is the first African American appointed as a representative to the

Edith Sampson is the first African American appointed as a representative to the UN.

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Aug

19

1950

World War I "Battle of Henry Johnson"

World War I Battle of Henry Johnson, Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts are the first Americans to be awarded the Croix de Guerre, Frances highest military award

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May

15

1918

Malcolm X

Born: 5/19/1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.Died: 2/21/1965 New York City, New YorkMalcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of

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Child, Julia

Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif., as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. In the early 1940s both she and her husband-to-be, Paul Child, served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and

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Norbert Rillieux, Inventor and Egyptologist, born

Norbert Rillieux, chemical engineer, inventor and Egyptologist, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of an inventor and engineer, Rillieux was educated in Paris schools and, at 24, became an instructor at LEcole Centrale and published papers on steam economy. Rillieux is best known for

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Mar

17

1806

Kofi Annan

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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Death of James Augustine Healy

Death of James Augustine Healy (70), Black Roman Catholic bishop, Portland, Maine.

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Aug

5

1900

Bellegarde, Dantès (1877-1966)

W.E.B. DuBois once lauded Dantès Bellegarde as the International Spokesman of Black Folk for his active career as a Haitian diplomat, historian, and advocate for the ending of United States occupation of

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Jun

14

1966

Johnson, Gregory Lee (1945- )

On August 5, 1999 President William Clinton appointed Gregory Lee Johnson U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland. He served in that post from November 16, 1999 to October 18, 2001. Johnson began his career in the Foreign Service in 1968 and has served in Vietnam (1968-1971). His next posts were in Japan

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Yaoundé, Cameroon (1888- )

Yaoundé is the capital and second largest city of Cameroon. Georg Zenker, a German scientist, led a group of people who settled Yaoundé in 1888. Yaoundé is located in the Ewondo region between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers in southern Cameroon. In 2012 an estimated 2.4 million people resided in

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1960

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