Three civil rights workers went missing in Neshoba County, Mississippi. On this day in 1964, the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were discovered after they had been abducted and murdered by white supremacists and segregationists.
Daniel Hale Williams, the renowned surgeon who performed the first open heart procedure, passed away this day in 1931.
Jazz great Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong was born on this day in 1901 in New Orleans.
America’s first Black President, Barack Hussein Obama, was born on this day in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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