History was made beginning on this day in 1955 when the first Afro-Asian Solidarity Conference, also known as the Bandung Conference, was held in Bandung, Indonesia. Twenty-nine countries from Africa and Asia met to discuss not only their new status as independent nations but to seek ways to work together for development. This was the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement that sprang up in the heat of the Cold War.
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On this day in 1877, six Blacks migrated west and established the town of Nicodemus, Kansas.
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Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe to independence on this day in 1980.
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On this day in 1983, Alice Malsenoir Tallulah-Kate Walker, popularly known as Alice Walker, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the Color Purple.
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