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Little Rock - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1863-08-01 |
Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign |
1868-01-07 |
Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock |
1953-12-18 |
KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954-04-15 |
KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1955-11-28 |
KTHV TV channel 11 in Little Rock, AR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1957-09-04 |
Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school |
1957-09-23 |
White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw |
1957-09-24 |
President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools |
1957-11-27 |
Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration |
1958-05-08 |
US President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock, Arkansas |
1958-05-27 |
Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS |
1958-06-23 |
US Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock, Arkansas |
1958-09-12 |
US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate |
1966-12-04 |
KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968-08-10 |
Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock |
2005-09-08 |
Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America. |
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Little Rock - Notable Birthdays
Little Rock - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1880-01-26 |
Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, US General (WW II), (d. 1964) |
1882-03-21 |
Gilbert M Anderson, [Max Aronson], Little Rock AR |
1898-03-06 |
Jay C Flippen, Little Rock AR, actor (Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay) |
1902-09-06 |
Morgan Beatty, Little Rock Ark, news anchor (Du Mont Evening News) |
1907-11-09 |
Burrill Phillips, Nine from Little Rock |
1925-10-05 |
Gail Davis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Annie Oakley) |
1927-02-12 |
Anne Gillis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Adv of Tom Sawyer, Little Men) |
1934-07-30 |
Ben Piazza, Little Rock Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas) |
1942-02-28 |
Frank Bonner, Little Rock AR, actor (WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love) |
1942-9-19 |
Jefferson Thomas, Nine from Little Rock |
1943-01-23 |
Gil Gerard, Little Rock Ark, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century) |
1955-09-21 |
Rebecca Balding, Little Rock Ark, actress (Carla-Lou Grant, Soap) |
1961-07-28 |
Scott E Parazynski, Little Rock Ark, MD/astronaut (STS 66, 86, sk:95) |
1963-02-18 |
Maria Shin, Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown |
1969-02-02 |
Aleksei Vakhrushev, The Tundra Book: A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock |
1971-11-05 |
Corin "Corky" Nemec, Little Rock, actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis) |
1975-07-03 |
John Hargis, US, Little Rock Ark, 100m butterfly (Olympics-96) |
Little Rock - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2007-05-06 |
Evanescence singer Amy Lee (25) weds Josh Hartzler (29) in Little Rock, Arkansas |
Little Rock - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1988-06-22 |
Burrill Phillips, Nine from Little Rock |
2010-09-05 |
Jefferson Thomas, Nine from Little Rock |
