Kwanzaa Founded to Strengthen African American Unity
Kwanzaa was established in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga to reaffirm a common identity and direction for African American people and their global community. The holiday centers on seven principles aimed at strengthening family and community ties with Umoja, the Swahili word for unity, celebrated on the first night.
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Maulana Karenga
Leimert Park
Los Angeles
America
Historic milestones from 1864 to 2010
The year by year milestones capture Sherman’s Savannah gift to Lincoln in 1864, Lech Walesa becoming Poland’s first directly elected president in 1990, the 2001 birth of Carbon Copy the first cloned cat at Texas A&M, and Obama’s 2010 repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell in the U S military.
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William T. Sherman
Abraham Lincoln
Savannah
Lech Walesa
Poland
Texas A&m University
Barack Obama
U.S
December historical anniversaries spotlight world events
A compilation notes major events on December 23 to 26 across years. Washington resigns as Continental Army chief in 1783. key milestones include the first kidney transplant in 1954, Eisenhower’s 1943 appointment, Gorbachev's 1991 resignation, and the Norman Atlantic ferry fire in 2014 with 11 deaths.
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George Washington
Brigham Hospital
Boston
Richard Herrick
Ronald
Richard
San Francisco
Richard Nixon
Norfolk
Virginia
Adriatic Sea
Patras
Ancona
Italy
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Akilah Young
Davonne Hamilton
Bronx
New York
Hugh Stroud
Harlem
Marion Bowie
Brooklyn
Museum of Natural History
Ruth Ndiagne Dorsey
Shrine of the
Atlanta
Otoe
Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
Washington, D.C
St. Peter’s Square
Vatican City
Michelangelo
St. Peter’s Basilica
George H.W. Bush
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Andrew Johnson
Marshall Fields
White House
Rockefeller Center
New York City
Tim Berners-Lee
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Trenton
Jack Johnson
Tommy Burns
Indian Ocean
Southeast Asia
East Africa
Charles Darwin
Great Britain
Radio City Music Hall
Yorktown
North Korea
International Atomic Energy Agency