On February 13, 1923, the New York Renaissance, the first
all-Black professional basketball team, was organized.

The Renaissance, commonly called the Rens, become one
of the dominant teams of the 1920s and 1930s.

Robert L. Douglas (1882 – 1979)

Nicknamed the "Father of Black
Professional Basketball", Douglas
owned and coached the Rens from
1923 to 1949, guiding them to a
2,318-381 record.

Jennings was a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He
is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement
in country music.

On February 13, 2002, Jennings died in his sleep from
complications of diabetes at his home in Chandler,
Arizona, aged 64.

Jennings worked as a performer and DJ on radio KLLL in
1958.

Waylon Jennings (left) & Buddy Holly in 1959.

1940

1965

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz 
(November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)

Schulz was an cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts
which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown
and Snoopy.

He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists
in history.

Schulz died in his sleep of a heart attack at his home in Santa
Rosa, California, at the age of 77. He was suffering from
colorectal cancer.

On February 12, 1909, the 100th anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln’s birth, a group that included African American
leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett
announced the formation of a new organization.          

Called the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, it would have a profound effect on the         
struggle for civil rights and the course of 20th-century
American history.

Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin
in Kentucky on February 12, 1809.

He served as President of the United States from 1861
until his assassination in 1865.