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Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2�
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
The first game of the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States is held in Gisborne, New Zealand.
Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half; resulting in 74 deaths.
Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.