1999 Quentin Crisp, "writer, life-stylist", The Naked Civil Servant, dies at 89
1999 Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84
1997 New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988
1996 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83
1996 Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73
1996 John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72
1996 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68
1996 Erskine Childers, United Nations official/civil servant, dies at 67
1996 Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73
1996 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79
1996 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
1996 Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war
1996 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97
1996 Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67
1996 Lucius E Burch Jr, U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84
1995 Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84
1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87
1994 El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
1993 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88
1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights
1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California
1992 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
1992 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1991 Angola's civil war ends
1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war
1990 Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies
1990 Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1988 Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1987 Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1987 China's rudimentary civil code in effect
1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1983 Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1978 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78
1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina
1973 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution
1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies
1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause
1968 President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks
1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss
1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered
1965 James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
1964 Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1964 Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20
1964 James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1964 Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1964 Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1964 U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights
1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia
1962 Sharon Lawrence, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, actress, Civil Wars, New YorkPD Blue, Fired Up
1961 Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress, Personal Best, Civil Wars
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth
1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1957 U.S. senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1957 Sen Strom Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
1955 Roberta Wallach, New York City, actress, Civil Wars
1955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79
1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1954 Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74
1953 Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball
1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1951 Alan Rosenberg, actor, Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill
1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.
1949 Greeks civil war ends
1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board
1948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City
1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
1947 U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms
1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order 9808
1946 Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service
1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1943 Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist
1941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
1940 Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader
1939 John Chilcot, civil servant
1939 U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established
1938 Geoffrey Holland, civil servant
1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights
1936 Michael Partridge, British civil servant
1936 Spanish Civil War begins, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1936 Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1933 Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration
1933 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies
1932 Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
1930 Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88
1930 Michael Quinlan, civil servant
1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1929 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1929 Erskine Childers, civil servant
1928 Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian
1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
1928 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant
1928 Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant
1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927 Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader
1926 Turkey allows civil marriage
1926 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, Natl Welfare Rights Assn
1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership
1925 Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta
1925 Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader
1924 John Vassall, spy/civil servant
1924 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
1923 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant
1922 Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant
1922 Emile Noel, international civil servant
1922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace
1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1921 John Garlick, British senior civil servant
1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1920 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
1920 James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader
1920 Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter
1919 Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant
1919 Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners
1918 John Bunting, senior civil servant
1918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit
1917 Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
1917 Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter, WW II
1916 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer
1915 Richard Sharp, civil servant
1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto
1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor
1912 William Gordon Harris, civil engineer
1912 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter
1912 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader
1910 Robert Grieve, civil servant
1910 Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant
1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
1910 Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist
1909 Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter
1909 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
1909 Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
1907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
1905 Angus Paton, civil engineer
1903 Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer
1902 Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War
1901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP
1899 Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War
1899 Robert Maynard Hutchins, U.S., educator/civil libertarian
1898 Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator
1896 Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1895 Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer
1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies
1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71
1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union
1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system
1879 William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883
1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1872 Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War
1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
1871 German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1871 Congress establishes the civil service system
1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1870 Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge
1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
1866 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
1865 S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1865 Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1864 Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
1864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
1863 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends
1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Conf general (Civil War), dies
1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army
1863 Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die
1862 Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)
1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist
1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia
1861 British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1861 Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War
1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1849 Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country
1842 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War
1841 Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914
1838 Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992)
1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
1832 Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872
1829 William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
1824 Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies
1817 Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
1815 Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction
1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1809 John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union lt adm/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon
1804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1797 William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet
1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1776 Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer, designed civil code law book
1772 Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer
1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
1724 John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer
1722 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51
1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament
1624 Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist
1622 Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist
1618 Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle
1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
1409 Austrian civil war ends
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