FEBRUARY 1
1960:Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain and David Richmond, all freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, are refused service because of their race at the “whites only” lunch counter of the F.W. Woolworth Co. store in Greensboro, N.C. Despite being asked to leave by Woolworth’s management, the four men stay until the store closes, inspiring sit-in protests throughout Greensboro and other Southern cities.
1946: Norwegian politician and diplomat Trygve Lie is elected the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
2003: After suffering damage to its left wing during launch, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrates while reentering Earth’s atmosphere over southeast Texas; all seven astronauts onboard are killed.
1946: Norwegian politician and diplomat Trygve Lie is elected the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
2003: After suffering damage to its left wing during launch, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrates while reentering Earth’s atmosphere over southeast Texas; all seven astronauts onboard are killed.
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