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1999 Quentin Crisp, "writer, life-stylist", The Naked Civil Servant, dies at 89
1999 Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84 1997 New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988 1996 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83 1996 Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73 1996 John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72 1996 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68 1996 Erskine Childers, United Nations official/civil servant, dies at 67 1996 Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73 1996 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79 1996 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101 1996 Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war 1996 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97 1996 Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67 1996 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84 1995 Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84 1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87 1994 El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war 1994 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court 1993 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88 1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war 1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1992 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars 1992 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge 1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war 1991 Angola's civil war ends 1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War 1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war 1990 Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies 1990 Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln 1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst 1988 Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies 1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill 1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington 1987 Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77 1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot 1987 China's rudimentary civil code in effect 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1983 Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli 1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 1978 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78 1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war 1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina 1973 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution 1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies 1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause 1968 President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks 1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss 1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights 1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered 1965 James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries 1964 Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law 1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam 1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate 1964 Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20 1964 James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21 1964 Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 1964 Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked 1964 U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights 1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia 1962 Sharon Lawrence, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, actress, Civil Wars, New YorkPD Blue, Fired Up 1961 Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress, Personal Best, Civil Wars 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth 1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117 1959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111 1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction 1957 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights 1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 1957 Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights 1957 Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) 1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony) 1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81 1955 Roberta Wallach, New York City, actress, Civil Wars 1955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79 1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 1954 Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74 1953 Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball 1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants 1951 Alan Rosenberg, actor, Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill 1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase 1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C. 1949 Greeks civil war ends 1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board 1948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City 1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect 1947 U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms 1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 1946 Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service 1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung 1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago 1943 Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1943 Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1943 James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist 1941 U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes 1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants 1940 Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader 1939 John Chilcot, civil servant 1939 U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain 1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco 1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established 1938 Geoffrey Holland, civil servant 1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights 1936 Michael Partridge, British civil servant 1936 Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising 1936 Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war 1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League 1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience 1933 Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration 1933 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies 1932 Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant 1930 Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88 1930 Michael Quinlan, civil servant 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1929 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist 1929 Erskine Childers, civil servant 1928 Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian 1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants 1928 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant 1928 Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war 1927 Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader 1926 Turkey allows civil marriage 1926 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association 1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership 1925 Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta 1925 Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader 1924 John Vassall, spy/civil servant 1924 Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai 1923 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant 1922 Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant 1922 Emile Noel, international civil servant 1922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace 1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League 1921 John Garlick, British senior civil servant 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) 1920 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece 1920 James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader 1920 Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter 1919 Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant 1919 Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners 1918 John Bunting, senior civil servant 1918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit 1917 Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister 1917 Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant 1917 Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter, WW II 1916 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer 1915 Richard Sharp, civil servant 1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor 1912 William Gordon Harris, civil engineer 1912 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter 1912 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader 1910 Robert Grieve, civil servant 1910 Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant 1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader 1910 Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist 1909 Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter 1909 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant 1909 Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant 1908 Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan 1907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers 1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties 1905 Angus Paton, civil engineer 1903 Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer 1902 Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War 1901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP 1899 Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War 1899 Robert Maynard Hutchins, U.S., educator/civil libertarian 1898 Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] 1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator 1896 Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 1895 Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer 1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies 1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71 1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes 1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War 1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional 1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system 1879 William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68 1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 1872 Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War 1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 1871 German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions 1871 Congress establishes the civil service system 1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War 1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War 1870 Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge 1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War) 1868 W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk 1866 1st Civil Rights Bill passes 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over 1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights 1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks) 1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment 1865 S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed 1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas 1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri 1865 Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War 1864 Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War 1864 General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor 1864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida 1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va 1863 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist 1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends 1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War 1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies 1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army 1863 Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia 1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die 1862 Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md) 1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia 1862 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist 1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War 1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River 1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins 1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought 1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV 1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia 1861 British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War 1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War 1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War) 1861 Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War 1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC 1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1849 Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties 1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country 1842 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959 1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War 1841 Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist 1838 Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992) 1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter 1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates 1832 Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist 1829 William Michael Rossetti, civil servant 1824 Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies 1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South 1817 Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 1815 Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction 1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel 1809 John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon 1804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted 1797 William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet 1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy 1776 Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer, designed civil code law book 1772 Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer 1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant 1724 John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer 1722 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system 1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists 1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament 1624 Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist 1622 Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist 1618 Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle 1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war 1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out 1409 Austrian civil war ends |
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