*             Today in Black History - October 12               *

1904 - William Montague Cobb is born in Washington, DC. He will
        become a physician, longtime professor of anatomy, and editor
        of the Journal of the National Medical Association from 1949
        to 1977.

1908 - Ann Petry is born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.  She will
        become the author of "The Street and the Juvenile Work", and
        "Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railroad."

1925 - Xavier University, America's only African American Catholic
        college, becomes a reality, when the College of Liberal Arts
        and Sciences is established.  The first degrees were awarded
        three years later. (The Normal School was founded in 1915.)

1932 - Richard Claxton Gregory is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He
        will be better known as "Dick" Gregory and will become a
        comedian, civil rights supporter, and nutrition advocate.

1935 - Samuel Moore, singer and one half of the group: Sam & Dave
        ("Hold On! I'm a Comin'", "Soul Man", "I Thank You", "Soul
        Sister "Brown Sugar"), is born.

1968 - Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.

1972 - Forty-six African American and white sailors are injured in
        a race riot aboard the aircraft carrier, Kitty Hawk off the
        coast of North Vietnam.

1989 - George Beavers, Jr., last surviving founder of Golden State
        Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles, California, dies. He
        co-founded this company in 1925, which is the third largest
        African American life insurance company, with $120 million
        in assets and $5 billion of insurance in force.

1989 - Herschel Walker is traded from the Dallas Cowboys to the
        Minnesota Vikings for 12 players.

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