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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48372)	4/27/2005 2:53:16 PM
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April 27 Togo independent 1960: The West African nation of Togo became independent this day, after several years as an autonomous republic in the French Union. In 1946 the British and French governments had placed their spheres of Togoland under the trusteeship of the United Nations. After 1947 the Ewe people in southern Togoland sought a common administration, but ethnic and political differences in the French and British sections led to the incorporation of British Togoland with the Gold Coast to form the nation of Ghana. Following Togolese independence, the new country resisted pressure to integrate with Ghana. 1961: Sierra Leone achieved independence within the British Commonwealth. 1945: African American playwright August Wilson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1937: The Condor Legion of the German air force attacked the Basque city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The attack was memorialized in Pablo Picasso's masterwork Guernica. 1828: The London Zoo opened in Regent's Park. 1822: The American Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. 1791: American painter Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of an electric telegraph and the Morse Code, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. 1521: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan was killed during a fight with inhabitants of Mactan Island, Philippines. 1296: King Edward I of England, seeking suzerainty over the Scots, invaded Scotland and removed the coronation stone of Scone to Westminster, England. Coretta Scott King American civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, born this day in 1927, was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. She joined her husband in civil rights activism through the 1950s and '60s, taking part in the Montgomery bus boycott (1955) and efforts to secure passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Following the assassination of her husband in 1968, she continued to be active in the civil rights movement and founded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about Martin. He was my source of inspiration.…Martin and I were soulmates. When he died, a part of me died.…The nation may have lost a great leader but I lost a husband. My children lost their father. We paid the ultimate price." Coretta Scott King