Here are a few important things that have happened on this day, November 10th, in black history.

1999 – 1995: Nigerian author and poet Ken Saro-Wiwa is executed.
1995: Nigerian author and poet Ken Saro-Wiwa is executed.

1999 – 1989: The Civil rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL is dedicated.
1989: The Civil rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL is dedicated.

1989 – Civil Rights Memorial is dedicated in Montgomery, AL, 1989
Civil Rights Memorial is dedicated in Montgomery, AL, 1989

1979 – The Bethune Museum & Archives, a depository and center for African American wom
The Bethune Museum & Archives, a depository and center for African American women’s history, is established in Washington, DC

1975 – Angola’s independence
Angola proclaimed independent.

1969 – Image Converter Patent
The image converter for detecing electromagnetic radiation was patented by George R. Carruthers making him the first Black to do so.

1925 – Louis Armstrong influenced direction of jazz
Louis Armstrong recorded the first of Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings that influenced the direction of jazz.

1925 – College established
Xavier University established.

1925 – Spingarn Medal: James Weldon Johnson
Spingarn Medal awarded to James Weldon Johnson, former U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua and NAACP executive secretary, for his work as an author, diplomat and leader.

1918 – Armistice signed, ending World War I
Armistice signed, ending World War I. Official records listed 370,000 Black soldiers and 1400 Black commissioned officers. A little more than half of these soldiers served in the European Theater. Three Black regiments the 369th, 371st and 372nd received the Croix de Guerre for valor. The 369th was the first American unit to reach the Rhine. Various individual Blacks were decorated for bravery. The first soldiers in the American army to be decorated for bravery in France were Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts of the 369th Infantry Regiment. Blacks were angered by a series of racial incidents.