Back 'n Da Dayz

1. Back 'n Da Dayz September 10

2. Former social worker Alice J. Stebbins Wells joined the L.A. Police Department in 1910, becoming the first policewoman in the U.S. with powers of arrest. Because of Wells’s efforts, 17 other US police departments were employing women by 1916.

3. Back 'n Da Dayz September 11

4. Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. killed thousands of people. These attacks were carried by jetliners that were high-jacked and crashed into the buildings.

5. Back 'n Da Dayz September 12

6. President George Bush issued a formal public apology to Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps by the US government during World War II (1941-1945). Many Japanese Americans were put in the camps because the US was at war with Japan and was biased against people of Japanese ancestry.

7. Back 'n Da Dayz September 13

8. In 1888, a bill banning the immigration of working class-Chinese for twenty years was approved by congress. The ban did not include, however, Chinese officials, students, merchants or travelers.

9. Back 'n Da Dayz September 14

10. In an ongoing battle between the US Cavalry and the Nez Perce, who refused to be removed to a reservation in Idaho, the Nez Perce held off the cavalry at Canyon Creek in Montana in 1877.

11. Back 'n Da Dayz September 15

12. The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed in 1963. Four teenage girls were killed in the explosion.

13. This was one of the most cold-blooded acts of violence against African Americans during the early years of the civil rights movement.

14. Back 'n Da Dayz September 16

15. Father Miguel Hildalgo y Costillo of Dolores, Mexico, met with the townspeople of Dolores to demand that Mexican land be returned to the people of Mexico and taken away from Spain, in 1810.

16. This date is celebrated as Independence Day in Mexico.

17. Back 'n Da Dayz September 17

18. Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew for "beginning of the year") is the Jewish New Year and is celebra-ted on the first and second days of the Jewish month of Tishri (falling in September or October) by Orthodox and Conservative Jews and on the first day alone by Reform Jews. It begins the observance of the Ten

19. Penitential Days, a period ending with Yom Kippur that is the most solemn of the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as the High Holy Days.

20. Back 'n Da Dayz September 18

21. On this day in 1987, a bill (HR442) passed in the US House of Representa-tives. This bill outlined a proposal for restitution and apology to those Jap-nese inmates of intern-ment camps of the World

22. War II era who were still alive. Under the terms of the bill, each individual who was imprisoned under Executive Order 9066 was to receive payment of $20,000.

23. Back 'n Da Dayz September 19

24. Former men’s tennis champion, Bobby Riggs, challenged women’s champion, Billie Jean King, to what was billed as the “Match of the Century” in Houston in 1973. Riggs, who was labeled as a

25. “male chauvinist pig,” had great disdain for women’s tennis players and believed women could not play as well as men. King beat him in three straight sets: 6-4, 6-3, and 6-3.

26. Back 'n Da Dayz September 20

27. In 1989, army general Colin Powell was confirmed by the Senate as chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. With this appointment, General Powell became the highest-ranking African American in the military.

28. Back 'n Da Dayz September 21

29. A Japanese fisherman named Aikahi Kubo-yama died on this day in 1954. Kuboyama became the world’s first H-bomb fatality as a result of being

30. dusted by radioactive debris during a US H-bomb explosion that took place on March 1st of that year.

31. Back 'n Da Dayz September 22

32. Back 'n Da Dayz September 24

33. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock. Arkansas, in 1957 to enforce court-ordered desegregation of public schools. The act followed the use of troops by Governor Faubus earlier in the month to prevent school desegregation.

34. Back 'n Da Dayz September 25

35. On this day in 1656, the first jury composed entirely of women was ordered by the General Provincial Court in Patuextent, Maryland. The court required an all-woman jury to hear the

36. case of Judith Catchpole, who was on trial for the murder of her child. The jury found Catchpole not guilty of the crime.

37. Back 'n Da Dayz September 26

38. In 1957 nine African American children successfully integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under escort from federal troops. This would not have been

39. Possible without the help of Daisy Bates, a state NAACP official and concerned citizen.

40. Back 'n Da Dayz September 27

41. On this day in 1781, troops under the command of General George Washington began a siege of Yorktown. This battle, which resulted in the surrender of British General Cornwallis, ended the Revolutionary War.

42. Back 'n Da Dayz September 28

43. The attempted enrollment of African American student James Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 led to rioting among a group of angry whites. More than 200 people were arrested and another two

44. were killed in the ruckus that quickly became dubbed “the Battle of Ole Miss.”

45. Back 'n Da Dayz September 29

46. On this day, seven Chero-kee chiefs and headmen entered into an alliance called “The Articles of A-agreement” with Lords Com-missioners of the British Court in London in 1730. The agreement

47. was a result of negotiations in which Sir Alexander Cummings convinced the Cherokee to accept Montoy as Emperor of Nequese (what is today Georgia)