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jackie robinson was born jaunuary 31, 1919 jackie Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era

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in 1937 Pasadena, California, Robinson became an all around athlete at Pasadena Junior College and the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA. He was very good  in football, basketball, and track as well as baseball. Robinson withdrew from UCLA in his third year to help his mother care for the family.

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1942 during World War II, Robinson was drafted and assigned to a segregated Army cavalry unit in Fort Riley, Kansas. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in January 1943. Robinson was then assigned to Fort Hood, Texas, where he joined the 761st "Black Panthers" tank battalion

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1945 began his professional baseball  career

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feb 10th,1946 jackie robinson and Rachel Robinson got married in a big church wedding in Los Angeles.

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1947 During his 10-year MLB career, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an AllStar for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954,and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949  Robinson played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Series championship.

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1955,Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball's modern era when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years

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1964, Robinson co-founded Freedom National Bank of Harlem, a Black owned and operated bank created for the express purpose of financially aiding African American communities.

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October 24, 1972 jackie robinson has died from a heart attack he died at age 53, almost blind, with underlying diabetes and associated complications. When Robinson died on Oct. 24, 1972, few researchers studied health disparities

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1997, MLB retired his uniform number 42 across all major league teams he was the first professional athlete in any sport to be so honored MLB also adopted a new annual tradition, "Jackie Robinson Day" for the first time on April 15, 2004, on which every player on every team wears No. 42