Born on This Day
Tennis player, AIDS activist and the first Black man to win singles titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open.
Educator, civil rights activist, presidential advisor and founder of the National Council of Negro Women.
Singer-songwriter whose anti-Vietnam War folk hit "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" made him a counterculture hero.
Lady Jane Grey begins her nine-day reign as Queen of England, the shortest stint for a British monarch in history. Her Catholic cousin Mary deposed her, tried her for treason and, after initially letting her live, had her beheaded.
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