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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.
The 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four girls and injuring at least 14 other people.
John E. Hodge, African-American chemist (died 1996)
François Bozizé, Gabonese general and politician, President of the Central African Republic
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the victim of an on-field assault, eventually leading to changes in NCAA football rules that mandated the use of more protective helmets with�
George Stinney Jr., wrongfully convicted African-American inmate; second youngest person in the U.S. to be executed (died 1944)
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American painter, poet, and educator, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History (died 2010)
Daniel Payne, American educator and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (born 1811)
The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magella�
The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.