Howard University was established on this day in 1867 in Washington, DC. It was chartered by the Federal Government, with the Congress appropriating funds for its operations.
On this day in 1962, basketball star and the Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt “the Stilt” Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA game. The record still stands.
The First Reconstruction Act of 1867 became law on this day in 1867. It was one of three such acts whose sole purpose was to organize the post-Civil War political management of the former Confederate States, including how they were to be integrated back into the Union.
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