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Los Angeles, California, founded by forty-four settlers of whom at least twenty-six were descendants of Africans. Among the Black settlers, according to H.H. Bancroft’s authoritative History of California, were “Joseph Moreno, Mulatto, 22 years old, wife a Mulattress, five children; Manuel Cameron, Mulatto, 30 years old, wife Mulattress; Antonio Mesa, Negro, 38 years old, wife Mulattress, six children; Jose Antonio Navarro, Mestizo, 42 years old, wife, Mulattress, three children; Basil Rosas, Indian, 68 years old, wife, Mulattress, six children.” on this date in 1781

Lewis H Latimer, inventor and engineer was born on this date in 1848.

Bowie State College is established in Bowie, MD on this date in 1865.

Black students are banned from a Little Rock high school, by Arkansas governor Oval Faubus who calls out the National Guard on this date 1957.