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The Silent Parade was a protest march in New York City on July 28, 1917. The goal was to draw attention to the racial violence and entrenched systemic discrimination endured by African Americans. The march was precipitated by racially motivated attacks in 1916 and 1917, including the East St. Louis massacre, and lynchings in Waco and in Memphis. The parade was organized by a coalition of African-American groups, led by the recently formed NAACP. Starting at 57th Street, the parade route proceeded down Fifth Avenue, ending at Madison Square. It was a silent procession, with an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 African Americans marching in protest, accompanied by a muffled drumbeat. Organizers hoped that the parade would prompt the federal government to enact anti-lynching legislation, but President Woodrow Wilson did not act on their demands. Lynchings persisted in the United States into the 1960s. (Full article...)

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1899 – A Category 1 hurricane (map pictured) made landfall in Azua Province in the Dominican Republic, destroying three large schooners at Santo Domingo; only one crew member on the three vessels survived.
1911 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began with the departure of SY Aurora from London.
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1945 – A B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people and causing an estimated $1 million in damage.
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The burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) is a small, long-legged owl in the family Strigidae. It is native to the open landscapes of North and South America, where it inhabits grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, and other open habitats with low vegetation, nesting and roosting in burrows usually excavated by other animals. When threatened, it retreats underground and produces rattling and hissing sounds resembling those of a rattlesnake, an example of acoustic Batesian mimicry. This southern burrowing owl (subspecies A. c. cunicularia) was photographed near Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

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