• 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
• 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
• 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
• 2003   – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.

Not a great date for flying.

Wow, you really look carefully at these events(like me) to pick em out carl. Great catch on all the plane crashes.

It was a good day to be a person of color:

1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.

1912 – The African National Congress is founded.

The South African Native National Congress delegation to England, June 1914. Left to right: Thomas Mapike, Rev Walter Rubusana, Rev John Dube, Saul Msane, and Sol Plaatje

Or to have the word "black" in your name (-:

1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated,

Or to be a woman:

1925 – The All-Woman Supreme Court met for the first time in Texas, the first all-female supreme court in the history of the United States.

This last one seems odd since woman had only been given the right to vote several years prior to that:

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=63