2015 Event The Confederate flag is removed from the South Carolina capitol grounds after the state government enacted a law to permanently remove it; the flag, part of U.S. Civil War history, is viewed by many as a symbol of racism 2015 Event Amazon.com joins eBay and others in removing Confederate flag items from its site after last week's shooting of nine African American church members; though part of U.S. Civil War history, the flag is also seen by many as a symbol of racism 2015 Event In response to terrorist dangers such as the January shootings at French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo', the French National Assembly passes a law to expand the government's surveillance powers; critics warn that the act will violate civil liberties 2015 Event TransAsia Airways suspends flights and begins retraining all its pilots in compliance with orders from Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration after the crash of Flight 235 into the Keelung River three days ago 2014 Event Bank of America must pay $1.3 billion in a civil lawsuit over fraud committed by lending unit Countrywide Financial, which operated a scheme nicknamed 'Hustle' that resulted in large numbers of unsubstantiated mortgages during 2007-2008 2013 Event America commemorates the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg, a decisive battle in the Civil War 2013 Event The Syrian civil war is a high-priority topic at the39th annual G8 Summit begins in Northern Ireland 2012 Event Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Chairman of Libya's legislative authority, the General National Congress, says al-Qaeda elements who fought with rebels in Libya's civil war number "up to 200" in Libya 2012 Event The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, closes with a 60-page final document focusing on Iran's nuclear energy program and the Palestinian issue, with no mention of the civil war in Syria 2012 Event After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu 2011 Event Due to a range of safety concerns, all Tiger Airways flights in Australia are grounded until July 9th by the country's Civil Aviation Safety Authority 2011 Event The General Assembly of Rhode Island passes legislation allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions 2011 Event In Brazil, the Supreme Federal Court rules that same-sex couples receive the same rights of existing civil unions 2011 Event In Morocco, thousands rally to demand and end to corruption and more civil rights for the Moroccan people 2010 Event A bill to allow same-sex civil unions is vetoed by Linda Lingle, U.S. governor of Hawaii 1999 Death Quentin Crisp, "writer, life-stylist", The Naked Civil Servant, dies at 89 1999 Death Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84 1997 Event New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988 1996 Death Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83 1996 Death Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73 1996 Death John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72 1996 Death Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68 1996 Death Erskine Childers, United Nations official/civil servant, dies at 67 1996 Death Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73 1996 Death Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79 1996 Death Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101 1996 Event Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war 1996 Death Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97 1996 Death Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67 1996 Death Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84 1995 Death Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84 1994 Death Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87 1994 Event El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war 1994 Event Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court 1993 Death French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88 1993 Event Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war 1993 Event Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1993 Event Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1992 Event Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars 1992 Event 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge 1991 Event Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war 1991 Event Angola's civil war ends 1990 Death Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 1990 Event PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War 1990 Event Truce in Nicaragua's civil war 1990 Death Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies 1990 Event Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln 1989 Event Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst 1988 Death Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies 1988 Event Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill 1987 Event 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington 1987 Death Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77 1987 Event Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot 1987 Event China's rudimentary civil code in effect 1985 Event Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1983 Event Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli 1979 Death Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 1978 Death Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78 1975 Event Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war 1974 Event "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina 1973 Event 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution 1970 Death Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies 1970 Event Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause 1968 Event President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1968 Event National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks 1967 Event 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss 1966 Event 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights 1966 Event Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Death Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Death James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Death Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries 1964 Birthday Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law 1964 Event Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam 1964 Event President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law 1964 Event Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate 1964 Death Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20 1964 Death James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21 1964 Death Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21 1964 Event Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 1964 Event Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked 1964 Event U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights 1964 Event Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1962 Event 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia 1962 Birthday Sharon Lawrence, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, actress, Civil Wars, New YorkPD Blue, Fired Up 1961 Birthday Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress, Personal Best, Civil Wars 1960 Event Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1960 Event President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 1960 Event Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1960 Event 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth 1959 Death Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117 1959 Death John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111 1957 Event President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction 1957 Event U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights 1957 Event Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 1957 Event Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights 1957 Event Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill 1957 Event Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) 1956 Event Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony) 1955 Death Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81 1955 Birthday Roberta Wallach, New York City, actress, Civil Wars 1955 Death Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79 1954 Birthday Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show 1954 Death Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 1954 Death Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74 1953 Birthday Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball 1951 Event Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants 1951 Birthday Alan Rosenberg, actor, Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill 1951 Event Italian civil servants strike for pay increase 1950 Event Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants 1950 Event 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C. 1949 Event Greeks civil war ends 1949 Event Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board 1948 Event President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1947 Event 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City 1947 Event Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect 1947 Event U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms 1946 Event President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 1946 Birthday Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service 1945 Event Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung 1945 Death Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25 1944 Event Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago 1943 Birthday Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1943 Birthday Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1943 Birthday James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist 1941 Event U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes 1940 Event Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants 1940 Birthday Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader 1939 Birthday John Chilcot, civil servant 1939 Event U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain 1939 Event Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco 1938 Event Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews 1938 Event Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established 1938 Birthday Geoffrey Holland, civil servant 1938 Birthday Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights 1936 Birthday Michael Partridge, British civil servant 1936 Event Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising 1936 Event Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war 1935 Birthday Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League 1934 Event In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience 1933 Event Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service 1933 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration 1933 Event Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies 1932 Birthday Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant 1930 Birthday Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88 1930 Birthday Michael Quinlan, civil servant 1930 Event Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1929 Birthday Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist 1929 Birthday Erskine Childers, civil servant 1928 Birthday Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian 1928 Event China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants 1928 Birthday Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant 1928 Birthday Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant 1927 Event Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war 1927 Birthday Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader 1926 Event Turkey allows civil marriage 1926 Birthday Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association 1926 Birthday Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership 1925 Birthday Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta 1925 Birthday Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader 1924 Birthday John Vassall, spy/civil servant 1924 Event Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai 1923 Birthday Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant 1922 Birthday Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant 1922 Birthday Emile Noel, international civil servant 1922 Birthday Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace 1921 Birthday Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League 1921 Birthday John Garlick, British senior civil servant 1920 Event Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) 1920 Event 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed 1920 Event Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece 1920 Birthday James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader 1920 Birthday Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter 1919 Birthday Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant 1919 Birthday Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners 1918 Birthday John Bunting, senior civil servant 1918 Birthday Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit 1917 Birthday Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister 1917 Birthday Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant 1917 Birthday Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter, WW II 1916 Birthday Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer 1915 Birthday Richard Sharp, civil servant 1914 Birthday Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1913 Birthday Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor 1912 Birthday William Gordon Harris, civil engineer 1912 Birthday Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter 1912 Birthday Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader 1910 Birthday Robert Grieve, civil servant 1910 Birthday Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant 1910 Birthday Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader 1910 Birthday Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist 1909 Birthday Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter 1909 Birthday Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant 1909 Birthday Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant 1908 Birthday Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan 1907 Birthday Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant 1906 Event Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers 1905 Event "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties 1905 Birthday Angus Paton, civil engineer 1903 Birthday Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer 1902 Birthday Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War 1901 Birthday Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP 1899 Birthday Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War 1899 Birthday Robert Maynard Hutchins, U.S., educator/civil libertarian 1898 Birthday Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] 1898 Birthday Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator 1896 Death Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 1895 Birthday Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer 1891 Death William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies 1891 Death William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71 1886 Event 1st Civil Rights Act passes 1885 Event Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War 1884 Birthday Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1883 Event Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional 1883 Event Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system 1879 Death William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68 1877 Death Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 1875 Event Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1874 Death Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 1872 Event Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War 1872 Event Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 1871 Event German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions 1871 Event Congress establishes the civil service system 1870 Event Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War 1870 Event Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War 1870 Birthday Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge 1868 Event Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War) 1868 Birthday W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk 1866 Event 1st Civil Rights Bill passes 1866 Event President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over 1866 Event Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights 1866 Event House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks) 1866 Event Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1866 Event President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment 1865 Event S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed 1865 Event Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas 1865 Event Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri 1865 Event Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War 1864 Event Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War 1864 Event General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor 1864 Event Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida 1864 Event Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va 1863 Birthday Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist 1863 Event Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends 1863 Event 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War 1863 Death Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies 1863 Event 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army 1863 Event Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia 1862 Event Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die 1862 Event Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md) 1862 Death Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia 1862 Birthday Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist 1862 Event New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War 1862 Event Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River 1861 Event 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1861 Event 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins 1861 Event Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought 1861 Event 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV 1861 Event 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia 1861 Event British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War 1861 Event Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War 1861 Event Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War) 1861 Event Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War 1861 Event 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC 1858 Event William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India 1849 Birthday Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties 1843 Event Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country 1842 Birthday Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959 1842 Birthday Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War 1841 Birthday Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist 1838 Event Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992) 1837 Birthday Vincent Strong, civil war fighter 1834 Event Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates 1832 Birthday Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist 1829 Birthday William Michael Rossetti, civil servant 1824 Death Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies 1821 Birthday Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South 1817 Death Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 1815 Birthday Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction 1811 Event French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel 1809 Birthday John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon 1804 Event French civil Code of Napoleon adopted 1797 Birthday William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet 1791 Event Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy 1776 Birthday Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer, designed civil code law book 1772 Birthday Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer 1768 Birthday Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant 1724 Birthday John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer 1722 Event Czar Peter the Great begins civil system 1673 Death Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 1644 Event Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists 1642 Event Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament 1624 Event Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist 1622 Birthday Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist 1618 Event Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle 1616 Event Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war 1570 Event Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out 1409 Event Austrian civil war ends
