American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (died 1987)

Harold Washington

Harold Lee Washington was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st mayor of Chicago. In April 1983, Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city's mayor at the age of 60. He served as mayor from April 29, 1983, until his death in 1987. Born in Chicago and raised in the Bronzeville neighborhood, Washington became involved in local 3rd Ward politics under Chicago Alderman and future Congressman Ralph Metcalfe after graduating from Roosevelt University and Northwestern University School of Law.

Born

1922

April 15

Died

1987

Era

1920s

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Harold, in brief

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1987 Died

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769 The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to the Norman Robert Guiscard.
1071 The sharif of Mecca changes the khutbah from the Shiite Fatimid caliph in Cairo to the Sunni Abbasid Caliph in Bagdhad.
1191 Henry VI, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by pope Celestine III.

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The world in 1922

When Harold arrived

april 1 In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
april 15 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
april 16 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
april 20 The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519 Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519) Leonhard Euler 1707–1783 Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) Corrie ten Boom 1892– Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister, and author (died 1983) Dawn Wright 1961– American geographer and oceanographer Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1772–1844 French biologist and zoologist (died 1844) Joe Davis 1901– English snooker player (died 1978)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1922

Alvin Dark 1922–2014 American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Barbara Bel Geddes 1922–2005 American actress (born 1922) Bill Johnston 1922– Australian cricketer and businessman (died 2007) Cecil H. Underwood 1922–2008 American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (born 1922) Charles Mingus 1922–1979 American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979) Christiaan Barnard 1922–2001 South African surgeon and academic (died 2001) Denholm Elliott 1922–1992 English-Spanish actor (died 1992) Enrico Berlinguer 1922–1984 Italian politician (born 1922) Erich Hartmann 1922–1993 German colonel and pilot (died 1993)

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