2004 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Finals, Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs beat Ai Sugiyama and Liezel Huber
2004 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Cara Black and her brother Wayne Black beat Todd Woodbridge and Alicia Molik
2003 Althea Gibson, tennis/golf great, first black woman to win Wimbledon, dies at 76
2003 Maynard Jackson, lawyer/mayor, first black mayor of Atlanta, dies at 65
2002 "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89
2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83
1998 Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57
1998 Tom Bradley, mayor, first black mayor of LA, dies at 80
1997 Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city (Detroit)
1997 Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out
1996 Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
1996 Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle), dies at 83
1996 Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city (Cleve), dies
1995 Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend)
1995 Fischer S Black Jr, financial Theorist, dies at 57
1995 Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
1995 Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82
1994 Woodrow "Woody" Strode, U.S. rugby player/black cowboy actor (Oil), dies
1994 Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60
1994 Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
1994 Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black and Tan), dies at 90
1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr. Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
1994 Robert F Kennedy, Jr. divorces Emily Black
1994 Danny Barker, U.S. banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St. Black), dies at 85
1993 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
1993 "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion New York City after 38 performances
1993 Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies
1993 "White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion New York City for 38 performances
1993 Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
1993 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
1993 Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
1993 Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
1993 John Steadman, actor (Gator, Fade to Black), dies of lung ailment 83
1993 Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84
1992 New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season
1992 Audre Lorde, St. Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies
1992 Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate
1992 Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink
1992 Ebony P. Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
1992 Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
1991 Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
1991 Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies
1991 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premieres on FOX TV
1991 Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
1991 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29)
1991 Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
1991 Roy Black, German singer and actor (Kinderarzt Dr. Froehlich), dies
1991 Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies
1991 Sharmell Sullivan (Gary, Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America
1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1991 Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
1991 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
1991 Willy T. Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
1991 "Black and Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 829 performances
1991 Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83
1990 Jean Paige, actress (Capt Blood, Black Beauty), dies
1990 Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black and Kathy Mattea win
1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
1990 1st elected U.S. black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
1990 David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of New York City
1989 -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota
1989 David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City
1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (Virginia)
1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (D-Va)
1989 New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman)
1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1989 Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1989 Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major U.S. party (Democrats)
1989 Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
1989 Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
1989 "Black and Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 829 performances
1988 Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49
1988 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1988 Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3)
1988 Eugene Marino installed as 1st black U.S. archbishop
1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65
1987 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record
1987 Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80
1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
1986 Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
1986 Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
1986 John Bubbles Sublett, tap dancer (Black and Bubbles), dies at 84
1986 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
1985 Noraly Beyer becomes Netherlands 1st black TV newscaster
1985 Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Penny], 1st black star, dies of pneumonia 83
1985 Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1985 Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67
1985 Patrick Barr, actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77
1985 Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
1985 Roger Huntington Sessions, U.S. composer (Black Masks), dies at 88
1985 "Black and Blue," premieres in Paris
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train
1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in New York City
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1984 Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 77
1984 Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor
1983 George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), dies
1983 W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1983 Black Hawks and Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)
1983 Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
1983 Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61
1983 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
1983 Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago
1983 Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor
1982 Lucas Black, actor, Sling Blade
1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin New York City after 5 perf
1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1981 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1981 Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
1981 Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
1981 "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 14 performances
1981 "Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 14 performances
1981 U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1980 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1980 National Black Independent Party forms
1980 Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1980 BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms
1979 New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1979 Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages
1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
1979 200 black leaders, meet in New York, to support Andrew Young
1979 Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America
1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM
1979 Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1978 Joseph Freeman, Jr. is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
1978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp
1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1977 Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody
1976 Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86
1976 Henry Olonga, cricketer, 1st black Zimbabwe Test cricketer vs. Pak 1995
1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of U.S. Conference of Mayors
1976 Johnny Mercer, U.S. songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66
1976 Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
1975 Frank Puglia actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), dies at 83
1975 Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas), dies at 81
1975 James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1975 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats New York 5-3)
1975 Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven), dies at 77
1974 James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday
1974 Joanne Black, Miss Universe-Ireland 1996
1974 Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57
1974 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83
1973 Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
1973 Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
1973 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
1973 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected
1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California
1973 Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs mgr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, thus technically becoming baseball's 1st black manager
1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
1972 Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies at 53
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists
1972 Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention
1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
1972 1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana
1972 Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
1972 Claudia Black, Australian Actress
1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1971 William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan
1971 Ralph J Bunche, 1st black U.S. diplomat (Nobel 1950), dies at 67
1971 New York Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
1971 Hugo Black, American Judge
1971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
1971 President Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
1971 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes 1st black Admiral in U.S. Navy
1971 John Buchanan, actor, Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man
1971 Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (New York Yankees)
1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1970 B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
1970 James McClain, U.S. black activist, shot dead
1970 Jonathan P Jackson, U.S. black activist, shot dead
1970 William Christmas, U.S. black activist, shot dead
1970 U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
1970 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70
1970 U.S. population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
1969 Chris Robinson, Atlanta, rocker, Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker
1969 Todd Black, Kenton Ohio, 800m runner
1969 Byron Black, Zimbabwe, tennis star
1969 Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85
1969 Cece Peniston, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Miss Black AZ/singer, Finally
1969 Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1969 James Black, Regina, NHL center, Chicago Blackhawks
1969 Rich Robinson, rocker, Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker
1969 Jack Black, American Actor
1969 Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston
1969 Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," premieres in New York City
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
1968 U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony
1968 During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute
1968 Will Smith, actor/rapper, Men In Black, Indepedence Day, Fresh Prince
1968 Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
1968 William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship
1968 Marine James Anderson, Jr. is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1968 Bobby Hutton, U.S. Black Panther leader, shot to death
1967 Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club), dies after illness at 84
1967 Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1967 U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1967 Jeff Cease, born in Nashville, guitarist, Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker
1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
1967 1st black government installed in Bahamas
1967 Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent
1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
1966 Chris Robinson, singer, Black Crowes
1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
1966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
1966 "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1966 Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
1966 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
1966 Johnny Colt, Cherry Point, North Carolina, rock bassist, Black Crowes
1966 Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
1966 Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
1966 Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
1966 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
1965 Bill Black, rocker, dies at 39
1965 George Black, Canadian Public Servant
1965 Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, rock drummer, Black Crowes
1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1965 Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits
1965 Frank Black, American Musician
1965 Black Francis, [Charles Thompson], U.S. singer and songwriter, Pixies
1965 Rodney King, born in Sacramento, California, black motorist beaten by LA cops
1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1965 Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
1964 David Spade, comedian, SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep
1964 Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1964 Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)
1964 Nancy Sorel, actress, Generations, Black Foix
1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1964 Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75
1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1964 Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools
1963 New York Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1963 Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
1963 Vanessa L. Williams, born in Millwood, New York, 1st black Miss America 1983 and singer
1963 G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank
1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st U.S. black female judge
1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
1962 James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi
1962 Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith)
1962 Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida
1962 Clint Black, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, country vocalist, A Better Man
1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 Patrica Morrison, rocker, Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet
1961 Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy
1961 Martin L. King protests for black voting right in Miami
1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
1961 1st black light is sold
1961 Jeb Adams, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Lt Jeb Pruitt-Baa Baa Black Sheep
1961 Old type, black and white notes cease to be legal tender
1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks and Maple Leafs (20 each)
1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1960 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
1960 Morty Black, heavy metal rocker, TNT-7 Seas
1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1960 George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74
1959 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament, William Wright
1959 Cathryn Harrison, born in London, England, actress, Old Woman in Black Moon
1959 Benjamin O Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF
1959 Andrew Eldritch, rocker, Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet
1959 "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
1958 1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York
1958 Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania)
1958 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
1957 Frank Boe˜en, Dutch singer, Frank Boe˜en Group, /Black and White
1957 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
1957 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83
1957 "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
1957 Dirk Blocker, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four
1957 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson
1957 Michael Rose, born in Kingston, Jamaica, rocker, Black Uhuru-Brutal, Positive
1957 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1957 All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies
1957 Theresa Russell, [Paup], San Diego, California, actress, Black Widow, Razor's Edge
1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline
1957 Willie Edwards, U.S. black, murdered by KKK at 25
1956 Art Tatum, black pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1956 Peter Frechette, Warwick, Rhode Island, actor, Paint it Black, George-Profiler
1956 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne)
1956 Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school
1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school
1956 Lisa Hartman Black, Houston, singer and actress, Tabitha, Knots Landing
1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1956 Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
1956 Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled
1956 University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
1956 Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville
1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
1955 1st black executive on White House staff, E. Frederic Morrow
1955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1955 Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform
1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (New York City)
1954 Charles C. Diggs, Jr. elected Michigan's 1st black congressman
1954 B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler, AAA/NJPW, Black Cat
1954 James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a U.S. cabinet meeting
1954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate
1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
1954 James Henderson, country singer, Black Oak Arkansas
1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member
1953 FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications
1953 U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1953 Roland Butcher, cricketer, 1st black to play for England 1981
1953 Sandra "Puma" Jones, Kingston Jamaica, rocker, Black Uhuru
1953 Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
1953 Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia A's
1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
1952 Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York City at 45
1952 St. Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York)
1952 PGA approves allowing black participants
1952 University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
1951 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
1951 Janet Collins, ballerina, 1st Black dancer with Opera Co, Aida
1951 Larry Black, born in Miami, Florida, 4x100 runner, Olympics gold 1972
1951 Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
1950 Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)
1950 Edith Sampson named 1st black U.S. delegate to U.N.
1950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in national tennis competition
1950 Thomas Aldrich, country drummer, Black Oak Arkansas
1950 New York Yankees obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes
1950 Derrick Simpson, born in Kingston Jamaica, rocker, Black Uhuru
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry
1950 Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
1950 Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves
1950 Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74
1949 Geezer Butler, born in Birmingham, rocker, Black Sabbath
1949 Terry "Geezer" Butler, born in Birmingham, rock bassist, Black Sabbath
1949 Ronnie James Dio, rocker, Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath
1949 Stanley Knight, country artist, Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog
1949 New York Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin and Ford Smith
1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1948 Ozzy Osbourne, England, rock vocalist, Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon
1948 Ricki Lee Reynolds, country singer, Black Oak Arkansas
1948 Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, U.S., sci-fi author, Black Flame
1948 Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma, 1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1948 Lewis Black, American Comedian
1948 Jet Black, rocker, Stranglers-Dreamtime
1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
1948 John J Pershing, [Black Jack], U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87
1948 Bill Ward, Birmingham England, heavy metal drummer, Black Sabbath
1948 Jim Dandy Mangrum, vocalist, Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy
1948 Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the U.S. Tennis Open
1948 Tony Iommi, rock guitarist, Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man
1948 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
1947 Pat "Dirty" Daugherty, rocker, Black Oak Arkansas
1947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
1947 Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader, On Your Own
1947 Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Philadelphia A's, 3-0
1947 Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
1947 Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL
1947 Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy
1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
1946 University of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
1946 Charles S. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
1946 Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
1946 Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
1946 William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1946 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
1946 Countee Cullen, U.S. poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42
1945 Jewell Jackson McCabe, President, natl coaltion of 100 black women
1945 Alton Maddox, New York black activist/attorney, Tawana Brawley case
1945 John Carlos, track star, Olympic bronze 1968, ; gave black power salute
1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
1945 Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign
1944 Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market
1944 Navy says black women can join WAVES
1944 Conrad Black, British Businessman
1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
1944 Sherry Lansing, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, China Syndrome, Black Rain
1944 South Carolina rejects black suffrage
1944 Colin Nutley, director and writer, Such is Life, Black Jack
1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1943 Jean-Jacques Annaud, director, Bear, Black and White, Coup de Tete
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1943 Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist, You're My World
1943 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
1943 Riot at Mobile Alabama shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1943 Gordon Black, English industrialist
1943 Ral Donner, [Ralph Stuart], Black Mountain, North Carolina, singer, Starfires
1943 George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81
1942 Madeline Bell, U.S. singer, Black Nativity
1942 Karen Black, [Ziegler], Park Ridge, Illinois, 5 Easy Pieces, Pyx
1942 U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
1942 Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
1942 Stephen Hawking, English physicist, Black Holes and Baby Universes
1941 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated
1941 Marcus Garvey, U.S. black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
1941 John Hancock, born in Hazen, Arkansas, actor, Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights
1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1940 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls
1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army
1940 U.S. Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
1940 1st U.S. merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in U.S. Armed Forces
1940 Bruce Chatwin, England, writer, On the Black Hill
1940 Booker T. Washington, 1st black to appear on U.S. stamp
1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar
1939 Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy, 1961
1939 Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City
1939 Max Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, black news anchor, ABC Evening News
1939 John D Hancock, actor and director, Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights
1938 Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector
1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
1938 Pleuni Touw, Dutch actress, Black Rider
1938 James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67
1938 Hoyt Axton, born in Duncan, Oklahoma, actor, Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters
1938 Jimmy Carl Black, rocker, Mothers Of Invention
1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
1938 Fischer S Black, Jr., financial theorist
1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1937 Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, Natl Black Theatre Company
1937 William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1936 NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black and white teachers
1936 Bekim Fehmiu, actor, Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro
1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray
1935 Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned Republican
1935 Diana Van Der Vlis, actress, Lovespell, Girl in Black Stockings
1934 Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69
1934 Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1934 Norman Beaton, actor, Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn
1934 [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], U.S. writer, Black Music
1934 Sophia Loren, born in Rome, actress, Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid
1933 Joe Lilliard QBs Chicago Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
1933 "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains
1933 Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1933 Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", U.S. singer, dies at about 64
1933 Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march
1933 Unita Blackwell, 1st black mayor in Mississippi
1932 Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria
1932 Mara Corday, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Foxfire, Black Scorpion
1931 Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Hartford CT
1931 Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies in Chicago at 78
1930 Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer, Black Venus
1930 Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as VP of American Zoologists
1930 Sorrell Booke, Buffalo, New York, actor, Bye Bye Braverman, Black Like Me
1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression
1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1929 Autherine Lucy, 1st black to enroll in University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
1929 Peter Breck, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji
1929 Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game
1929 Elston Howard, Yankee catcher, 1st black New York Yankee/1963 AL MVP
1928 Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, U.S., jazz musician, Black Messiah
1928 Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
1928 Shirley Temple Black, California, actress, Heidi, /ambassador, UN
1928 Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in New York and California
1927 Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist, Black Country Suite
1927 Althea Gibson, Silver, South Carolina, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
1927 Robert Shaw, born in England, actor, Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday
1927 David Norman Dinkins, 1st black Mayor-D-NYC, 1990-93
1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1926 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St. Pats 4-1
1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings
1926 Bill Black, rocker
1926 Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
1926 DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
1926 Mona Freeman, born in Baltimore, actress, Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress
1926 Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
1926 Michael Higgins, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, 1918, Wanda, Black Stallion
1925 Rijk de Gooyer, Dutch actor, Black Rider, Rififi in Amsterdam
1925 Malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder, Black Muslims
1924 Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL, Cleve Indians
1924 Shirley Chisholm, D-Rep-NY, 1st black congresswoman/president candidate
1924 James W. Black, Scottish Scientist
1924 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
1924 Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st U.S. black woman cabinet member
1924 Joe Black, baseball player
1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1923 Josephine B Willson Bruce, U.S. black theorist, dies at 69
1923 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes
1922 Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY
1922 Sheila Burrell, actress, Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark
1922 Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago, D, 1983-87
1922 Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in New York City
1922 Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
1921 Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
1921 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot
1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in New York City
1921 Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1920 Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
1920 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
1920 John Howard Griffin, U.S., photographer/author, Black Like Me
1920 Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop, Methodist
1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
1919 Edward W. Brooke, 1st black senator in over 80 years, Sen-R-Mass
1919 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series
1919 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)
1919 Jackie Robinson, born in Georgia, 1st black major league baseball player, Dodgers
1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed)
1917 Elyse Knox, Hartford, Connecticut, actress, Hit the Ice, Black Gold
1917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
1917 Margaret Taylor Burroughs, U.S. author/house painter, Black Queen
1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1917 Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor, Black Lash, Lash of the West
1917 Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey
1915 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1915 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in U.S., opens in NO LA
1915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 U.S. black army chaplain, dies at 82
1914 Guus Verstraete Sr, [August de Graef], Dutch actor/dir, Black Magic
1914 Florentine Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Dutch black widow/Nazi
1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1913 Peter Black, TV critic
1913 Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week"
1913 Douglas Black, physician
1912 Louis Prima, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, That Old Black Magic
1912 Preston Lockwood, actor, House of Windsor, Black Candle
1911 Ethel Lois Payne, journalist, Chic Defender, /1st Lady of Black Press
1910 1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Balt)
1910 Eric Tindall, cricketer, All Black rep who kept wicket in 5 Tests
1910 Signe Hasso, actress, QB VII, Taxi 13, Black Bird, Crisis
1909 Johnny Mercer, Savannah, Georgia, lyricist, Moon River, Old Black Magic
1909 Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher, analytical philosophy
1908 Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet, Black Banners
1908 Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns and becomes 1st black heavyweight champ
1908 Anthony Warde, Pennsylvania, actor, Black Widow
1908 Thurgood Marshall, born in Maryland, 1st black Supreme Court justice, 1967-91
1907 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A. Black], British painter
1907 Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer, Russia Black on White
1907 Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature
1906 Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1906 Harry Elstrom, Danish/Belgian sculptor, Great Passion, Black Christ
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov, Hong Kong
1906 Black evangelist William J. Seymour arrives in Los Angeles California
1906 Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
1906 Willa B Brown, Coffey, U.S. black air pioneer, NAAA
1905 Black intellectuals and activists organize Niagara movement
1905 Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front
1904 Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1904 Iron Eyes Cody, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, actor, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp
1903 Fredi [Fredericka] Carolyn Washington, actress, Black and Tan
1903 In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game
1903 Countee Cullen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, poet, Black Christ and Other Poems
1903 Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist, Black Byzantium
1903 Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer, Snow Was Black
1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1902 Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, black author, 100 years of negro freedom
1902 Milford "Curly" Page, cricketer, NZ bat early 1930's, All Black half
1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1900 James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
1900 Billie Dove, [Lilian Bohny], New York City, actress, Black Pirate, Stolen Bride
1899 British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa
1899 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1899 Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer, Rose, Black King
1899 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney, NY
1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1899 Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ, Kiwi mystery writer, Black Beech and Honeydew
1899 Dwight Frye, Salina, Kansas, actor, Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein
1898 Ivan Triesault, born in Estonia, actor, Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute
1898 Hattie McDaniel, born in Wichita, 1st Black to win Oscar, Gone With The Wind
1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1898 Eugene R. Black, U.S., President of World Bank, 1953-62
1898 Joyce Carey, English actress, Black Windmill
1897 John Mercer Langston, U.S. black jurist, dies at 67
1897 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0
1896 Roger Huntington Sessions, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, Black Masks
1895 Benjamin E Mays, South Carolina, black educator, Morehouse, Howard University
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter"
1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1894 Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star, 1920-26
1893 Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1892 Dr. Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
1892 N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
1892 U.S. black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis Mo
1892 Frank Puglia, born in Sicily, Italy, actor, Black Orchid, Jungle Book
1892 Edmund Lowe, actor in Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper
1891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist, Black Snow
1890 J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City, Pennsylvania, actress, Courage of Black Beauty
1890 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black U.S. advocate in Virginia
1890 George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
1889 Clarence Muse, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion
1889 Moroni Olsen, born in Ogden, Utah, actor, Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White
1889 Cyril Delevanti, England, actor, Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye
1887 Hobart Cavanaugh, U.S., actor, Border Town, Black Angel
1887 Joe Jackson, black sox player, Say it aint so, Joe
1886 Hugo L. Black, Ala, Sen-D-Ala, /78th Supreme Court justice, 1937-71
1886 Hugo Black, American Judge
1885 Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st U.S. black bishop
1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist, Black Wings
1885 Martin R Delany, politician and black nationalist, dies at 72
1884 Davidson Black, born in Canada, doctor of anatomy, identified Peking Man
1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1884 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black |
