* Today in Black History - September 30 *
1935 - John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is born in Gilmer, Texas. He
will become a romantic pop singer who will amass more than
50 gold and platinum records for such hits as "Misty". He
will also have the distinction of having an album on the
Billboard Top 100 album charts for the longest consecutive
period, 491 weeks, earning him a place in the Guinness Book
of World Records. In 2003, the Academy of Recording Arts
and Sciences will award him the Lifetime Achievement Award.
This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the
Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers who,
during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of
outstanding artist significance to the field of recording.
He will be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three
separate recordings - in 1998 for "Chances Are", in 2002 for
"Misty", and in 2008 for "It's Not for Me to Say". He will
also be awarded the Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2006. In 2007, he will be inducted into the Hit
Parade Hall of Fame.
1935 - "Porgy and Bess," a folk opera by composer George Gershwin,
has its premiere in Boston at the Colonial Theatre. It
was a flop! It was revived in 1942 and ran longer than any
revival in the history of American musical theater.
1942 - Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon is born in New York City.
He will become the lead singer of Frankie Lymon and the
Teenagers and will record his signature song, "Why Do Fools
Fall in Love?," at age fourteen. He will develop a serious
drug problem before he turns twenty and will join the
ancestors after succumbing to a drug overdose on the
bathroom floor of his grandmother's apartment at age 25,
on February 27, 1968.
1943 - Marilyn McCoo (Davis) is born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
She will become a singer with the group, "The Fifth
Dimensions". Some of the hits with the group will be "Up,
Up and Away," and "Aquarius." She will have a solo hit,
"One Less Bell to Answer," and will record "You Don't
Have to be a Star" with her husband, Billy Davis, Jr. She
will later become a TV hostess for "Solid Gold" from
1981-1984, and from 1986-88. She will also be a TV music
reporter for "Preview."
1954 - Patrice Louise Rushen is born in Los Angeles, California. She
will be a jazz pianist and Rhythm & Blues singer. She will
also be a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist,
songwriter, and music director. Her 1982 single, "Forget Me
Nots", will receive a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female
Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance. She will have great success
on the Rhythm & Blues and dance charts. "Haven't You Heard"
will go to number 7 on the Rhythm & Blues charts, with "Forget
Me Nots" as her only top 40 pop hit in the United States. The
chorus from "Forget Me Nots" will be used as the music for the
1997 song "Men in Black." The song will be a number one hit in
ten countries, and will be the top most played song on American
radio. She will be credited as writer and composer, along with
Will Smith and Terry McFadden. In 2005, she will receive an
Honorary Doctorate of Music degree from Berklee College of Music.
1962 - A large force of federal marshals escorts James H. Meredith
to the campus of the University of Mississippi. President
Kennedy federalizes the Mississippi National Guard.
University of Mississippi students and adults from Oxford,
Mississippi, and other southern communities riot on the
university campus. Two persons are killed and one hundred
or more are wounded.
1966 - Bechuanaland ceases to be a British protectorate and becomes
the independent Republic of Botswana with Sir Seretse Khama
as its first President.
1972 - Professional baseball great Roberto Clemente hits his 3,000th
and final hit of his career.
1975 - Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier square off in a fight billed
as "The Thrilla in Manila". Ali will win the fight and
retain his world heavyweight title when, after 14 rounds,
Frazier's trainer refuses to let him continue.
1976 - Two Centuries of Black American Art opens at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art. The exhibit features over 60
lithographers, painters, and sculptors including 19th
century masters Joshua Johnston, Edward Bannister, and
Henry O. Tanner as well as modern artists Charles White,
Romare Bearden, and Elizabeth Catlett. The introduction
to the exhibit's catalogue asserts that the assembled
artists' work proves that the human creative impulse can
triumph in the face of impossible odds, and at times even
because of them.
1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first freely
elected president, is overthrown by a military junta.
The three-member junta that takes over begins a campaign
of terror and violence that in a three-year period will
cause the deaths of over 5000 Haitians and force tens of
thousands to flee the island by boat. Jean-Bertrand
Aristide sat in the presidency for only seven months.
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