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1942
Huey Newton ~ (founder of the Black Panther Party) born |
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1963
Michael Jeffrey Jordan ~ (basketball legend) is born in Brooklyn, New York
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1982
Thelonious Monk ~ Thelonious Monk, one of the founders of the bebop style and one of only five jazz musicians to appear on the cover of Time magazine, dies of a stroke at the age of 64
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On This Day In Black History: February 17 was originally published on praisecharlotte.com
