The Arena Players are the oldest African American community theater in the United States founded in 1952.
The Arena Players are the oldest African American community theater in the United States founded in 1952.
1941 – 1989
Louis Goldstein, longest serving Maryland politician
Louis Goldstein, much loved and much admired, is elected to state comptroller nine times, dying in the middle of his tenth campaign.
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A Catholic anti-Vietnam War group burns draft records in Catonsville
The Catonsville Nine, led by Catholic priests, burn draft records to protest the Vietnam War in 1968. Philip Berrigan is second from left, rear row.
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Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard builds the first Liberty Ship
Baltimore shipyards build 384 Liberty Ships over four years to carry supplies and soldiers to the European battlefields of World War II.
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Entrepreneur Reginald F. Lewis creates foundation
Baltimore native Reginald Lewis, first African American to build a $1 billion corporation, creates a foundation in 1987. In 2002 it provides major support in creating the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Maryland Board of Censors goes out of business
Maryland closes the country’s longest surviving state censorship board (1916-1981) as a cost cutting measure. Board member Mary Avara (on right) becomes well known for policing violence, language and sex content in films and for admonishing John Waters.
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Piscataway-Conoy leader Turkey Tayac is buried on his ancestral land in a national park
Turkey Tayac (Phillip Proctor), the prominent Piscataway-Conoy leader of the mid-20th century, is the first Native American buried by an Act of Congress in a national park in 1978.
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Barbara Mikulski enters public office
Barbara Mikulski, Baltimore social worker, is elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976, then to the Senate in 1986, becoming longest-serving female member of Congress.
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Elizabeth Seton, first person born in U.S. to become a saint
Elizabeth Ann Seton, born 1774, becomes first person born in US canonized as Catholic Saint in 1975.
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Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns, avoids jail
In 1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew pleads no contest to taking cash kickbacks from Maryland contractors in the VP office. He escapes jail by resigning. The first VP to be accused of a crime but not convicted is Aaron Burr for treason in 1807.
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