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December 08, 1925 | Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr born | Delete |
March 08, 1945 | Phyllis Mae Daley, first of four African American Navy nurses to serve active duty in WW II receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps | Delete |
September 08, 1957 | Tennis champion, Althea Gibson, becomes the first Black athelete to win a US national tennis championship | Delete |
November 08, 1960 | Otis M. Smith elected auditor general of Michigan and became the first Black chosen in a statewide election since the Reconstruction period | Delete |
April 08, 1974 | Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record | Delete |
June 08, 1982 | Baseball legend pitcher Satchel Paige dies in Kansas City, Missouri | Delete |
February 08, 1986 | Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show | Delete |
October 08, 1992 | Derek Walcott, poet and playwright born in St Lucia, receives Nobel Prize for Literature | Delete |
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