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1919
Aug 7
| 1919 • Amanullah Khan becomes King of Afghanistan. |
1944
Age: 24y
birth of childSherrie Ann Edgar |
| 1944 • The Allies capture Florence, Italy. |
1948
Age: 28y
birth of childMary Edgar |
| 1948 • The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts. |
1955
Age: 35y
birth of childPaul Edgar |
| 1955 • Claudette Colvin (a fifteen-year-old African-American girl) refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards while being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. |
1960
Age: 40y
birth of childPatty Edgar |
| 1960 • In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter. |
1977
May 10
Age: 57y
| 1977 • The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel. |