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- 1895 – Fairfax Taylor died (aged 78). An African-American civil rights activist who lobbied for equality for newly freed black citizens after the Civil War, he was buried at Maplewood Cemetery. Fairfax is the father of politician and Union soldier James T. S. Taylor.
- 1918 – James T. S. Taylor died at 6 o’clock this evening after a week’s illness of pneumonia (aged 77). Born to free parents, Taylor served with the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War (1861–1865).
- 1940 – Helen Keller, noted New York deaf and blind author and lecturer, accompanied by an unidentified man, stopped at the Monticello Hotel this afternoon for several letters which had been addressed to her there. She sent a telegram and left immediately.