On July 10, the area entered the history books when the mercury climbed to a blistering 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 degrees Celsius) at Furnace Creek, California, breaking the record for the highest temperature ever recorded.
Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major American city: Black History Month. View full sizePlain Dealer file photoCarl Stokes, shown in 1968 in downtown Cleveland, focused many of his efforts as mayor on improving city services and helping Cleveland's poorest residents.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the first African-American justice, Thurgood Marshall, to the US Supreme Court in 1967. Justice Marshall was a prominent civil rights att â¦ orney before ascending to the bench, and was best known as lead counsel in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).