Colonel Charles R. Young dies after a distinguished career as one of the U.S. Army’s highest ranking black officers. Young might have attained the rank of general, had it not been for the racial discrimination he endured.

Chicago White Sox baseball player Minnie Minoso is born in Havana, Cuba.

Pediatrician Dr. Charles F. Whitten is born on this date in Wilmington, Delaware. Whitten is a sickle cell anemia expert and formed the Sickle Cell Detection and Information Center.

Litigator and entertainment attorney Leo Branton, Jr. is born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Educator, historian and former newspaper columnist Camilla Perkins Thompson is born on this date in Jacksonville, Florida.

Tuskegee Airman and professor Roscoe Brown, Jr. is born in Washington, D.C.

Sales executive and Olympic medalist Herbert Douglas is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Diversity specialist Marion McElroy is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Civil Rights leader Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth is born on this date in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Community activist and journalist Lutrelle F. Palmer is born in Newport News, Virginia.

Jazz bassist Charles Mingus was born on this date in Nogales, Arizona.

Honorable Harry J. Elam was born on this date in Boston, Massachusetts.

Former U.S. Congressman, Maryland Parren Mitchell is born

Children’s Librarian, Storyteller & Educator Henrietta Mays Smith is born.

Photographer Jack T. Franklin is born on this date in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Health & Family Planning Consultant Naomi Gray is born

Arts Educator Della Hardman is born

Army Paratrooper Roger Walden is born

Samuel L. Gravely was born on this date in Richmond, Virginia. Gravely went on to become the first Black to reach flag rank in the U.S. Navy when he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral.

Federal District Appellate Court Judge Damon Keith is born.

Photographer Ernest Withers is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

Entrepreneur Ophelia DeVore is born on this date in Edgefield, South Carolina.

Entertainer Albert Stiles is born in Tampa, Florida.

Author and newspaper columnist Louis E. Lomax was born on this date.

Community activist Leatrice Branch Madison is born in Washington, D.C. on this date.

Publisher of the Afro-American, Frances Murphy II is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Women's athletics pioneer Katherine Bennett is born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Dentist Harvey Bryant Smith was born on this date in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is founded at Butler University in Indiana. It is the first African American sorority founded on a white campus.

Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay published his poem, Harlem Shadows on this date.

Ralph Gardner-Chavis is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He will work on the Manhattan Project and teach for almost two decades, among other distinctions.

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill is passed in the United States House of Representatives, but following a twenty-one day filibuster by Southern Senators, the bill is defeated.

Dr. John Clark, professor of obstetrics at Howard University, is born in West Virginia.

Civic leader Bernice Fletcher is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.