* Today in Black History - January 18 *
1856 - Dr. Daniel Nathan Hale Williams is born in Holidaysburg,
Pennsylvania. He will graduate from Chicago Medical College in
1883 and begin his practice on Chicago's South Side. After 8
years of frustration, not being able to use the facilities at
the white hospitals in Chicago, he will found Provident Hospital
in 1891 and open it to patients of all races. He will make his
mark in medical history on July 10, 1893, when he performs the
world's first successful open heart surgery.
1948 - The first courses begin at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
1949 - Congressman William Dawson is elected chairman of the House
Expenditure Committee. He is the first African American to head
a standing committee of Congress.
1958 - Willie Eldon O'Ree becomes the first person of African descent to
play in the NHL, when he debuts with the Boston Bruins in a 3-0
win over Montreal in the Forum.
1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and
control Parliament by a single seat.
1962 - Southern University is closed because of demonstrations protesting
the expulsion of student sit-in activists.
1966 - Robert C. Weaver takes the oath of office as Secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Appointed by
President Lyndon B. Johnson, Weaver becomes the first
African American to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet.
1975 - "The Jeffersons," one of the first TV shows about an African
American family, is seen for the first time. The Jeffersons, who
move to Manhattan's posh East Side, are the former neighbors of
the Bunkers in the sitcom "All in the Family." The Jeffersons will
be the first show to introduce the subject of mixed marriages
humorously and tastefully in prime time TV. Sherman Hemsley plays
George Jefferson and Isabelle Sanford the role of Louise, his wife.
1989 - Otis Redding, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder are inducted into
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
1990 - The South African government announces that it is reconsidering
a ban on the African National Congress.
1990 - Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry is arrested for allegedly
purchasing and using crack cocaine in a Washington, DC hotel
room. The circumstances surrounding his arrest, trial, and
conviction on one count of misdemeanor cocaine possession
will be hotly debated by African American and white citizens
of the District and elsewhere.
1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela's cabinet denies amnesty
sought by 3,500 police officers in apartheid's waning days.
2000 - Jester Hairston, who appeared on radio and TV's "Amos 'n' Andy,"
but who was better known to younger fans as the wise old church
member Rolly on the sitcom "Amen," joins the ancestors in Los
Angeles, California at the age of 98.
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