day in history

August 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed the Prague Spring, the births of Connie Chung and H.P. Lovecraft, and the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

August 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the things that happened on this day in history, including the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the birth of Molefi Kete Asante, Afrocentrist and Professor of African Studies at Temple University, and the death of William Randolph Hearst.

August 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares come of the events that happened on this day in history, including the founding of Bogotá, Colombia, the independent of Bolivia, and the death of Rick James.

August 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the destruction of the second ancient Jewish Temple, the arrest of Lizzie Borden, and the birth of Louis Armstrong.

July 31, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the expulsion of Jews from Spain, Columbus landing on Trinidad, and Fidel Castro handing over power to his brother Raul.

July 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1968 Papal ban of the contraceptive pill, as well as all other artificial means of birth control, the birth of Kwame Toure', formerly known as Stokley Carmichael, and the death of Cass Elliot.

July 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the abolition of slavery in Chile, Alabama dropping rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys," and the birth of Barry Bonds.

July 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the creation of the Province of Canada, the validation of African American citizenship through the 14th amendment, and the launch of anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco. It is also the day Amy Winehouse died in 2011.

July 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the publication of the first daily Black newspaper, The New Orleans Tribune, in 1864, the births of Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, and Marshall McLuhan, and the death of Robert Burns.

July 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Detroit declaring bankruptcy in 2013, the births of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and M.I.A., and the deaths of Mimi Fariña and Jane Austen.

July 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the charging of John T. Scopes, with teaching evolution, a 1966 rally at Soldier Field in Chicago in which Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a crowd of 60,000 people, and Boris Yeltsin taking office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

July 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress, the abolition of slavery in New York, and the publication of “America the Beautiful” by Katherine Lee Bates.

July 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1835 strike of children in Paterson, NJ, the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain, and the births of Mississippi John Hurt and Franz Kafka.

June 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt after he led a coup against King Farouk, the births of June Carter Cash and Clarence Thomas, and the death of Betty Shabazz.

June 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Albert Parsons and Eric Dolphy, race riots in Detroit, and the acquittal of Lizzie Borden for the murders of her father and stepmother.

June 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act, the birth of Lou Gehrig, and the announcement in Galveston, Texas that slavery was over, commemorated as Juneteenth.

June 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc takes a look on what happened on this day in history, including when, in 1876, 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory, the 1862 Congressional authorization of the acceptance of African Americans into the Union Army, the birth of Kendrick Lamar, and the death of Rodney King.

June 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Nelson Mandela being sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly attempting to sabotage the white South African government, the death of David Brinkley, and the self-immolation of of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in a busy Saigon intersection in protest of the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

June 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election of Margaret Thatcher, Secretariat winning horse racing's Triple Crown, and the births of Robert McNamara and Johnny Ace.

June 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the shooting of James Meredith when he was marching from Memphis to Jackson for the vote, the births of Roy Innis and Marian Wright Edelman, the deaths of Carl Jung and Stan Getz.

June 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the beginning of the Six Day War in Israel/Palestine, the birth of Art Donovan, the death of Ronald Reagan, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

June 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, when white US Navy soldiers clashed with Latino youth in LA, the births of Memphis Minnie, Raul Castro and Curis Mayfield, and the deaths of author Franz Kafka and Jack Kevorkian.

May 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Betty Shabazz and Gladys Knight, the death of Gil-Scott Heron, and the beginning of the French and Indian War.

May 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - We hear about some of the events that happened on this day in history, including learning about Decoration Day and the African American roots of Memorial Day from Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Communication and Affiliate Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and author of the new book, "Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis."

May 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the abolition of slavery in Martinique, the births of Harvey Milk and Sun Ra, and the deaths of Claude McCay and Langston Hughes.

May 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the signing of the Homestead Act, the first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier, and the birth of Haitian revolutionary Pierre-Dominique Touissant L'Overture.

May 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including H. Rap Brown replacing Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a bill being sent to President Clinton making it a Federal Crime to block access to an abortion clinic or to use force or threats against people using these facilities, and Bob Dylan walking out of rehearsals for the Ed Sullivan show after being told he couldn't perform his song Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues due to it mocking the US military and segregation.