Jaleel White was born November 27, 1976 in Pasadena, California. He started acting in commercials for Jack In The Box and other companies at the age of 3. His first television role was on CBS’s The Jeffersons in 1985. Jaleel White is best remembered as being the ever annoying and loveable Steve Urkel.

Model/actress Robin Givens first gained national prominence as a regular on the TV series Head of the Class. From 1986 through 1991, Robin played Darlene Merriman, a prep-school type attending a high school honors program. She was married to boxing champ Mike Tyson; the marriage ended in divorce.

ON this date in 1957, Federal troops left Little Rock.

ON this date in 1957, Dorothy Height, YMCA official, elected president of the National Council of Negro Women.

On this date in 1944, Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, was born in Lubbock, Texas. Leland was killed when the plane in which he was a passenger crashed somewhere in southwestern Ethiopia.

On this date in 1942, Rock Musician Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle, Washington.

On this date in 1928, Marjorie Joyner was issued a patent for a permanent wave machine which could wave the hair of both white and Black people. U.S. Patent 1,693,515. Marjorie Joyner was employed by the Madame C.J. Walker Cosmetic Company and assigned her patent rights to that comapny.

On this date in 1895, the French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas died.

On this date in 1841, the liberators of the ship Amistad set sail for Africa aboard the Gentleman.