1483: England's King Richard III is crowned 1942: Anne Frank enters annex in Amsterdam 2013: Plane crashes at San Francisco airport
Althea Gibson The first African American woman to win Wimbledon, Althea Gibson is pictured in full colour, leaving the court with her compatriot Darlene Hard after a hard-fought battle. Using one billion colours, the image, originally in black and white, brings new life to a true icon and leader, who never accepted no as an answer in life and was constantly striving to show she deserved her place on the court, regardless of her skin tone.
The National League team poses before the first major league All-Star Game in Chicago, Ill., on July 6, 1933. In 1988, 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform. In 2016, Philando Castile, a Black elementary school cafeteria worker, was killed during a traffic stop in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights by Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
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