February 4 ----: Mikey (Michael) Bennett [Home T] is born. 1913: Rosa Parks (in full Rosa Louise McCauley Parks), black American civil rights activist, is born. 1962: Yamaguchi Naoki aka Nahki is born. 1969: MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola - Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) begins armed struggle against Portugal in Angola. 2017: Scully (Noel Bartholomew Simms), Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae percussionest, passes away.  February 5 2023: Kabaka Pyramid win the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album for 'The Kalling' at the 65th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.  February 6 1820: First organized emigration of U.S. blacks back to Africa takes place. 86 free black colonists sail from N.Y.C. to Sierra Leone, Africa. 1945: Bob Marley is born Robert Nesta Marley to 18-year-old Cedella and Captain Norval Sinclair Marley at c. 2:30 a.m. in Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica. Almost all sources say he is born on this day, but it is listed as April 6, 1945 on his passport. 1948: William "Bunny Rugs" Clarke [Third World; vocals/guitars] is born in Mandeville in the Jamaican parish of Manchester. 1959: Spanner Banner (Joseph Bonner) is born in Rock Hall, St. Andrew, Jamaica. 1980: Bob Marley gives his 35th birthday party of his own accord in Kingston. It is his last birthday in his native Jamaica. 1981: Bob Marley's 36th and last birthday Junior Marvin, Seeco Patterson and Tyrone Downie hosted a little birthday party for Bob in his quarters at the Ringberg Clinic. 1989: A great dub master Osbourne Ruddock aka King Tubby passes away. A lone gunman murdered Tubby, the motive apparently robbery, at about 1 a.m. when Tubby returned his home at 85 Sherlock Crescent, Duhaney Park in the Parish of St. Andrew, Jamaica, put his car into the garage and was about to close the gate. He was 48. (b. January 28, 1941) 1995: The late Bob Marley's 50th birthday concert is held at the Bob Marley museum at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica. 2,500 people gathered the place. The concert started 8 p.m. Ras Michael & Sons of Negus, Judy Mowatt, Vanessa Williams, Toots Hibbert, Tony Rebel, Mystic Revealers, Third World, Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers, The Wailers and I-Three performed in the five hours. Tommy Cowan acted as MC. A morning service celebrating Bob Marley's birthday is also held at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from sunrise on this day. "Rastaman Chant" on Nyahbinghi echo in the church. 2004: Singer Simple Simon passes away following a long battle with cancer of the oesophagus, at age 48. (b. February 11, 1956) 2024: Guitarist and singer Donald Kinsey passes away at the age of 70.