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Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin.
Chantal Djotodia, Beninese-Central African nurse and politician
Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)
African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
A race riot in Philadelphia, United States, destroyed African-American businesses and killed two people.
Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba.
Three African-American U.S. sea servicemen stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa raped a 12-year-old local girl, after kidnapping, beating, and torturing her.
Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School (pictured).
Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (died 1954)
Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
George Franklin Grant, African-American educator, dentist, and inventor (died 1910)
The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls and injuring at least 14 other people (memorial march pictured).
Miriam Benjamin, African-American educator and inventor (died 1947)
Lena Frances Edwards, African-American physician, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (died 1986)
A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to del�
Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.