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2012 Event - Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Chairman of Libya's legislative authority, the General National Congress, says al-Qaeda elements who fought with rebels in Libya's civil war number "up to 200" in Libya

2012 Event - The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, closes with a 60-page final document focusing on Iran's nuclear energy program and the Palestinian issue, with no mention of the civil war in Syria

2012 Event - After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu

2011 Event - Due to a range of safety concerns, all Tiger Airways flights in Australia are grounded until July 9th by the country's Civil Aviation Safety Authority

2011 Event - The General Assembly of Rhode Island passes legislation allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions

2011 Event - In Brazil, the Supreme Federal Court rules that same-sex couples receive the same rights of existing civil unions

2011 Event - In Morocco, thousands rally to demand and end to corruption and more civil rights for the Moroccan people

2010 Event - A bill to allow same-sex civil unions is vetoed by Linda Lingle, U.S. governor of Hawaii

1999 Death - Quentin Crisp, "writer, life-stylist", The Naked Civil Servant, dies at 89

1999 Death - Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84

1997 Event - New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988

1996 Death - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83

1996 Death - Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73

1996 Death - John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72

1996 Death - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68

1996 Death - Erskine Childers, United Nations official/civil servant, dies at 67

1996 Death - Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73

1996 Death - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79

1996 Death - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101

1996 Event - Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war

1996 Death - Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97

1996 Death - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67

1996 Death - Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84

1995 Death - Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84

1994 Death - Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87

1994 Event - El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war

1994 Event - Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court

1993 Death - French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88

1993 Event - Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war

1993 Event - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights

1993 Event - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California

1992 Event - Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars

1992 Event - 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge

1991 Event - Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war

1991 Event - Angola's civil war ends

1990 Death - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64

1990 Event - PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War

1990 Event - Truce in Nicaragua's civil war

1990 Death - Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies

1990 Event - Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln

1989 Event - Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst

1988 Death - Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies

1988 Event - Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill

1987 Event - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington

1987 Death - Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77

1987 Event - Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot

1987 Event - China's rudimentary civil code in effect

1985 Event - Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president

1983 Event - Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli

1979 Death - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90

1978 Death - Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78

1975 Event - Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war

1974 Event - "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina

1973 Event - 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution

1970 Death - Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies

1970 Event - Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause

1968 Event - President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

1968 Event - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks

1967 Event - 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss

1966 Event - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights

1966 Event - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1965 Death - Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered

1965 Death - James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered

1965 Death - Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries

1964 Birthday - Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law

1964 Event - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam

1964 Event - President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

1964 Event - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

1964 Death - Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20

1964 Death - James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21

1964 Death - Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21

1964 Event - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27

1964 Event - Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked

1964 Event - U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights

1964 Event - Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1962 Event - 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia

1962 Birthday - Sharon Lawrence, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, actress, Civil Wars, New YorkPD Blue, Fired Up

1961 Birthday - Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress, Personal Best, Civil Wars

1960 Event - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1960 Event - President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960

1960 Event - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1960 Event - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth

1959 Death - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117

1959 Death - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111

1957 Event - President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction

1957 Event - U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights

1957 Event - Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957

1957 Event - Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights

1957 Event - Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill

1957 Event - Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)

1956 Event - Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)

1955 Death - Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81

1955 Birthday - Roberta Wallach, New York City, actress, Civil Wars

1955 Death - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79

1954 Birthday - Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show

1954 Death - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90

1954 Death - Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74

1953 Birthday - Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball

1951 Event - Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants

1951 Birthday - Alan Rosenberg, actor, Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill

1951 Event - Italian civil servants strike for pay increase

1950 Event - Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants

1950 Event - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.

1949 Event - Greeks civil war ends

1949 Event - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board

1948 Event - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program

1947 Event - 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City

1947 Event - Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

1947 Event - U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms

1946 Event - President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808

1946 Birthday - Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service

1945 Event - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung

1945 Death - Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25

1944 Event - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago

1943 Birthday - Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964

1943 Birthday - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964

1943 Birthday - James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist

1941 Event - U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes

1940 Event - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants

1940 Birthday - Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader

1939 Birthday - John Chilcot, civil servant

1939 Event - U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain

1939 Event - Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco

1938 Event - Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews

1938 Event - Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established

1938 Birthday - Geoffrey Holland, civil servant

1938 Birthday - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights

1936 Birthday - Michael Partridge, British civil servant

1936 Event - Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising

1936 Event - Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war

1935 Birthday - Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League

1934 Event - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience

1933 Event - Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration

1933 Event - Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies

1932 Birthday - Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant

1930 Birthday - Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88

1930 Birthday - Michael Quinlan, civil servant

1930 Event - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India

1929 Birthday - Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist

1929 Birthday - Erskine Childers, civil servant

1928 Birthday - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian

1928 Event - China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants

1928 Birthday - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant

1928 Birthday - Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant

1927 Event - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

1927 Birthday - Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader

1926 Event - Turkey allows civil marriage

1926 Birthday - Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association

1926 Birthday - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership

1925 Birthday - Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta

1925 Birthday - Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader

1924 Birthday - John Vassall, spy/civil servant

1924 Event - Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai

1923 Birthday - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant

1922 Birthday - Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant

1922 Birthday - Emile Noel, international civil servant

1922 Birthday - Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace

1921 Birthday - Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League

1921 Birthday - John Garlick, British senior civil servant

1920 Event - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)

1920 Event - 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed

1920 Event - Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece

1920 Birthday - James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader

1920 Birthday - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter

1919 Birthday - Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant

1919 Birthday - Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners

1918 Birthday - John Bunting, senior civil servant

1918 Birthday - Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit

1917 Birthday - Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister

1917 Birthday - Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant

1917 Birthday - Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter, WW II

1916 Birthday - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer

1915 Birthday - Richard Sharp, civil servant

1914 Birthday - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto

1913 Birthday - Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor

1912 Birthday - William Gordon Harris, civil engineer

1912 Birthday - Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter

1912 Birthday - Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader

1910 Birthday - Robert Grieve, civil servant

1910 Birthday - Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant

1910 Birthday - Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader

1910 Birthday - Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist

1909 Birthday - Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter

1909 Birthday - Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant

1909 Birthday - Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant

1908 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant

1906 Event - Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers

1905 Event - "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties

1905 Birthday - Angus Paton, civil engineer

1903 Birthday - Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer

1902 Birthday - Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War

1901 Birthday - Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP

1899 Birthday - Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War

1899 Birthday - Robert Maynard Hutchins, U.S., educator/civil libertarian

1898 Birthday - Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]

1898 Birthday - Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator

1896 Death - Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72

1895 Birthday - Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer

1891 Death - William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies

1891 Death - William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71

1886 Event - 1st Civil Rights Act passes

1885 Event - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War

1884 Birthday - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union

1883 Event - Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

1883 Event - Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system

1879 Death - William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68

1877 Death - 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 Event - Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883

1874 Death - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63

1872 Event - Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War

1872 Event - Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)

1871 Event - German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions

1871 Event - Congress establishes the civil service system

1870 Event - Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War

1870 Event - Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War

1870 Birthday - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge

1868 Event - Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)

1868 Birthday - W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk

1866 Event - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes

1866 Event - President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

1866 Event - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights

1866 Event - House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)

1866 Event - Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto

1866 Event - President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment

1865 Event - S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed

1865 Event - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas

1865 Event - Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri

1865 Event - Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War

1864 Event - Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War

1864 Event - General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor

1864 Event - Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida

1864 Event - Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va

1863 Birthday - Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist

1863 Event - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends

1863 Event - 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1863 Death - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies

1863 Event - 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1863 Event - Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia

1862 Event - Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die

1862 Event - Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)

1862 Death - Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia

1862 Birthday - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist

1862 Event - New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War

1862 Event - Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River

1861 Event - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla

1861 Event - 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins

1861 Event - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought

1861 Event - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV

1861 Event - 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia

1861 Event - British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War

1861 Event - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

1861 Event - Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

1861 Event - Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War

1861 Event - 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC

1858 Event - William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India

1849 Birthday - Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties

1843 Event - Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country

1842 Birthday - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959

1842 Birthday - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War

1841 Birthday - Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist

1838 Event - Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992)

1837 Birthday - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter

1834 Event - Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates

1832 Birthday - Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist

1829 Birthday - William Michael Rossetti, civil servant

1824 Death - Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies

1821 Birthday - 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 Death - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58

1815 Birthday - Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction

1811 Event - French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel

1809 Birthday - John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon

1804 Event - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted

1797 Birthday - William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet

1791 Event - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy

1776 Birthday - Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer, designed civil code law book

1772 Birthday - Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer

1768 Birthday - Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant

1724 Birthday - John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer

1722 Event - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system

1673 Death - Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51

1644 Event - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists

1642 Event - Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament

1624 Event - Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist

1622 Birthday - Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist

1618 Event - Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle

1616 Event - Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war

1570 Event - Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out

1409 Event - Austrian civil war ends













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