*		    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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