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On this day in Wikipedia: Friday, 16th February

Welcome, nuqneH, merħba, selamat datang 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 16th February through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

16th February 2021 🗓️ : Event - Kherrata Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria. "Kherrata is a commune in northern Algeria in the Béjaïa Province...."

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16th February 2019 🗓️ : Death - Bruno Ganz Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941) "Bruno Ganz (German: [ˈbruːno ˈɡant͡s] ; 22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019) was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wim Wenders,..."

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16th February 2014 🗓️ : Death - Ken Farragut Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928) "Kenneth David Farragut, Jr. (December 23, 1928 – February 16, 2014) was an American football center. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles...."

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16th February 1974 🗓️ : Birth - José Dominguez José Dominguez, Portuguese footballer and manager "José Manuel Martins Dominguez (born 16 February 1974) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a winger, currently assistant manager of Cypriot First Division club APOEL FC. A diminutive player with above-average technical skills and speed, he started playing professional football not in his..."

16th February 1923 🗓️ : Event - Howard Carter Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. "Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings...."

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16th February 1824 🗓️ : Birth - Peter Kosler Peter Kosler, Slovenian lawyer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1879) "Peter Kosler or Kozler (16 February 1824 – 16 April 1879) was an Austrian-Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist, and businessman. He was of ethnic German origin, but also identified with Slovene culture and advocated the peaceful coexistence of the Slovene and German cultures in..."

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16th February 🗓️ : Holiday - Elizabeth Peratrovich Day (Alaska) "Elizabeth Peratrovich (née Elizabeth Jean Wanamaker; Tlingit: Ḵaax̲gal.aat [qʰaχ.ɡʌɬ.ʔatʰ]; July 4, 1911 – December 1, 1958) was an American civil rights activist, Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and member of the Tlingit nation who worked for equality on behalf of Alaska Natives...."

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abwwia · 10 months

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Elizabeth Peratrovich - Equal Roghts Advocate for Alaska Natives (née Elizabeth Jean Wanamaker; Tlingit: Ḵaax̲gal.aat [qʰaχ.ɡʌɬ.ʔatʰ]; July 4, 1911 – December 1, 1958) was an American civil rights activist, Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and member of the Tlingit nation who worked for equality on behalf of Alaska Natives. In the 1940s, her advocacy was credited as being instrumental in the passing of Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first state or territorial anti-discrimination law enacted in the United States. via Wikipedia

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diioonysus · 4 years

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suffragettecity100 · 4 years

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Elizabeth Peratrovich

WCW 66. Elizabeth Peratrovich

Native Alaskan Kaaxal.gat was born to the Lukaax̱.ádi clan of the Tlingit nation in Petersburg, Alaska in 1911. She was orphaned at a very young age and adopted by Andrew Wanamaker, a fisherman and Presbyterian minister, and his wife Mary. Her adoptive name became Elizabeth.

She attended Western College of Education in Bellingham, Washington where she met her husband, Roy Peratrovich. He was of Tlingit and Serbian descent. They moved back to Alaska and started a family. Roy served as mayor of Klawok for four terms.

However, when they moved to Juneau in 1941 they were horrified at the level of discrimination they had to endure as native people. They had difficulty finding housing and there were signs that no natives were allowed even in many public facilities within the city.

The Peratroviches belonged to the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Alaska Native Sisterhood organizations and lobbied government officials to allow for Native Americans to testify about the effects of discrimination and petitioned to ban “No Natives Allowed” signs throughout the territory.

The anti-discriminatory law passed the house easily but went into full debate in the senate. Senator Allen Shattuck openly opposed the measure by saying, "Far from being brought closer together, which will result from this bill, the races should be kept further apart. Who are these people, barely out of savagery, who want to associate with us whites with five thousand years of recorded civilization behind us?" Elizabeth listened patiently and eventually took the stand to testify. With great composure she stated, "I would not have expected, that I, who am barely out of savagery would have to remind gentlemen with five thousand years of recorded civilization behind them of our Bill of Rights. When my husband and I came to Juneau and sought a home in a nice neighborhood where our children could play happily with our neighbors' children, we found such a house and had arranged to lease it. When the owner learned we were Indians, they said "no." She went on to describe what discrimination really feels like and concluded her testimony by saying "So laws against larceny and even murder prevent these crimes? No law will eliminate crimes but at least you legislators can assert to the world that you recognize the evil of the present situation and speak your intent to help us overcome discrimination.”

Elizabeth’s impassioned and eloquent testimony is credited with helping the measure to pass. In 1945, the territory of Alaska passed the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, 19 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. February 16th is officially Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska and she is scheduled to be featured on a $1 coin produced by the U.S. Mint in 2020.

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https://www.nicoa.org/elizabeth-peratrovich-day/

https://www.alaska.edu/uajourney/notable-people/juneau/elizabeth-peratrovich

https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/native-american-dollar-coins/2020-elizabeth-peratrovich

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akhistoricalsociety · 7 years

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Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day! Today we honor Alaska Native civil rights activist Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich who worked to pass the Alaska Territory Anti-Discrimination Act on this day in 1945.

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the-brandboy · 5 years

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Elizabeth Peratrovich Day: 71+ Best Messages, Quotes & Greetings

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Elizabeth Peratrovich was a famous civil rights activist, and she worked on behalf of equality for Alaska natives in 1940s. Elizabeth Peratrovich was born on 19 July 1911 at Peterburg, Alaska, United States. The name of Elizabeth Petrovich parents are Andrew and Mary Wanamaker, and Elizabeth Petrovich’s other name is Kaaxgat aat which used in many quotes. Elizabeth Peratrovich educated from…

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Peratrovich, Elizabeth Wanamaker (1911–1958)

Grand Camp President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood who was in the forefront of the fight to end discrimination against the indigenous peoples in Alaska. Born Kaaxgal.aat in Petersburg, Alaska, on July 4, 1911; died after a long battle with cancer on December 1, 1958; interred in Juneau’s Evergreen Cemetery; a Tlingit, she…

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