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February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the Armed Struggle [89] Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday can fall, while March 10 is the latest; celebrated on the first day of Lent (Western Christianity) Independence Day (Sri Lanka) [90] Rosa Parks Day (California and Missouri, United States) World Cancer Day; International Day of Human ...
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks ...
1797 – The Riobamba earthquake, the most powerful in Ecuador's history, devastated Riobamba and many other cities, causing at least 6,000 casualties. 1801 – John Marshall , whose court opinions helped lay the basis for U.S. constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a coequal branch of government , took office as chief justice .
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave.
February 12: Lantern Festival in China (2025); Lincoln's Birthday in some parts of the United States; Red Hand Day Edvard Munch's The Scream 1691 – A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII .
Black History Month began in 1926 as just a week-long observance, then expanded into a month-long celebration in 1976. ... who claimed February 14 as his birthday, and President Abraham Lincoln ...
The New York City school boycott, also known as Freedom Day, described by one American author as "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history", [17] began and involved more than 460,000 African-American and Puerto Rican students and 3,500 teachers, who refused to show up at the city's public schools, as a protest against alleged de facto racial segregation.
Black History Month's origins date back to 1915 when historian Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.