February 1
African-American Heritage Month
1960
Four black college students sat in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they’d been refused service, to protest segregation. Similar protests subsequently took place all over the South and in some northern communities. By September 1961, more than 70,000 students, whites and blacks, had participated, and many were arrested, during sit-ins.
1968
Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executed Nguyen Van Lem, suspected leader of a Viet Cong assassination platoon, with a pistol shot to the head on the street. AP photojournalist Eddie Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the incident became one of the most famous, ubiguitous and lasting images of the war in Vietnam, affecting international and American public opinion regarding the war.
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes Nguyen Van Lem a NLF officer.
1980
7,000 march to protest KKK in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1992
President George Bush & Russian President Boris Yeltsin declare an official end to Cold War
1988
Two Native American activists, Eddie Hatcher & Tim Jacobs, occupy a newspaper office in Lumberton, North Carolina, to highlight racism issues.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 