1967 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr ~ (activist and chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor) denied his congressional seat |
2008 Johnnie Rebecca Carr ~ dies at age 97 (from a stroke). She formed the Montgomery Improvement Association after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to forfeit a bus seat to a white man. |
1950 Julius "Dr. J." Erving ~ (basketball legend) is born in Roosevelt, New York |
1979 St. Lucia ~ Independence Day |
