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Ivory Coast gained its independence on this day from France in 1960.


 




Matthew Henson, the first man to reach the North Pole in 1908-09, was born on this day in 1866 in Maryland.


 






On this day in 1796, the Boston African Society was established. It was an organization started to provide insurance and other life benefits for the ‘brotherhood’ of Black people.

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