Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of the District of Columbia. Dixon succeeded Marion Barry who was convicted of cocaine possession in the summer of 1990.
Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She went on to become a celebrated talk show hostess, actress, movie producer and business woman.
On this date in 1990, David Norman Dinkins began his first working day as mayor of New York City with a 7:00 a.m. appearance on NBC-TV’s ‘Today’ show. After defeating former mayor Edward Koch in the September Democratic primaries and then, by a small margin, beating Republican Rudolph Guiliani in the general election…
On this date in 1977, Erroll Garner, pianist and composer, dies. He was considered the best selling jazz pianist in the world, most famous for the jazz standard “Misty”.
On this date in 1977, Ellis Wilson, painter, dies
On this date in 1970, United States population: 293,200,000. Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1 per cent). Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, President-Emeritus, Morehouse College, named president of Atlanta Board of Education.
On this date in 1970, Clifton Reginald Wharton becomes the new president of Michigan State University.
On this date in 1968, actor Cuba Gooding Jr, born , Bronx, New York.
ON this date in 1965, voter registration drive, led by Martin Luther King Jr., started in Selma, Alabama.
On this date in 1915, Historian John Hope Franklin was born.
On this date in 1898, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was born in Philadelphia ,PA. She would later becomes the second African American to earn a Ph.D in economics.
On this date in 1872, Mississippi legislature met. John R Lynch was elected Speaker of the house at the age of twenty-four.
On this date in 1837, The first National Negro Catholic Congress is held in Washington. D. C.
ON this date in 1800, Antislavery petition from free Blacks of Philadelphia presented to Congress.
