On this day: November 14

POSTED: 11:18 AM PST Nov 13, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 13, 2012 

America's first library opens, a plane crash kills most of the Marshall University football team, Princess Anne marries a commoner, and Michael Jackson premieres his "Black or White" video, all on this day.

OTD November 14 - Booker T Washington
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Library of Congress

1915: Educator and activist Booker T. Washington, who was the dominant leader in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915, dies of hypertension at age 59 in Tuskegee, Ala.

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