*                   Today in Black History - August 5                   *

1763 - William Richmond is born free on Staten Island, New York.  One of
        the first African Americans to attempt winning a title in any sport,
        Richmond will travel to England to fight, among others, boxing
        champion Tom Cribb in a losing effort.

1864 - John Lawson, an African American gunner on the flagship of Admiral
        David Farragut, exhibits marked courage in the Battle of Mobile Bay
        and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor.

1865 - President Andrew Johnson moves to reverse the policy of distributing
        abandoned land to freedmen.

1892 - Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a
        nurse, spy, and scout during the Civil War.   She, along with
        Sojourner Truth, Susie King and almost 200 other African American
        women, served as nurses during the war at 11 hospitals in three
        states.

1900 - James Augustine Healy, the first African American Roman Catholic
        bishop, joins the ancestors in Portland, Maine.  He is the brother of
        Patrick Francis Healy, the first African American to receive a Ph.D.
        and first African American president of a predominantly white
        university (Georgetown University).

1936 - Jesse Owens wins his third gold medal by running a 200-meter race
        in 20.7 seconds at the Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany.

1938 - James Cone, who will become an articulate scholar and author on black
        theology, is born in Fordyce, Arkansas.

1938 - Ja'net DuBois, actress on "Good Times'" Willona Woods, and "Beverly
        Hills 90210's" Arlene, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1962 - Nelson Mandela is charged with incitement and illegally leaving South
        Africa.

1962 - Patrick Ewing,  NBA center, 3-time All-American, NBA Rookie of the
        Year with New York Knicks in 1986, is born.

1966 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is stoned by hecklers during a Chicago,
Illinois
        civil rights march.

1968 - Senator Edward Brooke is named the temporary chairman of the
Republican
        National Convention in Miami, Florida.

1984 - Track and field stars Evelyn Ashford and Edwin Moses win Gold medals
in
        the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California.

1992 - Federal civil rights charges are filed against four Los Angeles
police
        officers acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of
        Rodney King.  Two of the officers will be convicted later of federal
        charges of violating King's civil rights.

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