Ruby Bridges’s first day of school
Six-year-old Ruby Bridges began attending an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on this day in 1960, becoming the youngest of a group of Black students to racially integrate schools in the American South. 1960.
The Ethiopian parliament and Eritrean Assembly voted unanimously for the abolition of Eritrea’s federal status, making Eritrea a province of the Ethiopian empire. Eritrea achieved independence in 1993. 1962.
Prince Charles—the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh—was born in Buckingham Palace. He became king 73 years later. 1948.
The Serbo-Bulgarian War began when Serbian King Milan Obrenovic IV declared war on Bulgaria. 1885.
Booker T. Washington, the most influential spokesman for Black Americans of his time, died at age 59. 1915.
