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* Today in Black History - January 4 *
1787 - Prince Hall, founder of the first African American Masonic lodge,
and others petition the Massachusetts legislative for funds to
return to Africa. The plan is the first recorded effort by
African Americans to return to their homeland.
1832 - A major insurrection of slaves on Trinidad occurs.
1920 - Andrew "Rube" Foster organizes the Negro National Baseball
League.
1935 - Boxer Floyd Patterson is born in Waco, North Carolina. A gold
medal winner in the 1952 Summer Olympic Games in the middleweight
class, he will be the first gold medalist to win a world
professional title.
1937 - Grace Ann Bumbry is born. She grew up at 1703 Goode Avenue in St.
Louis, Missouri. She will join the Union Memorial Methodist
Church's choir at eleven, and sing at Sumner High School. She
will be a 1954 winner on the "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts" show.
After her concert debut in London in 1959, Bumbry debuts with the
Paris Opera the next year. In 1961, Richard Wagner's grandson
features her in Bayreuth, Germany's Wagner Festival. The first
person of African descent to sing there, Bumbry will be an
international sensation and win the Wagner Medal. A mezzo-
soprano who also successfully sang the soprano repertoire, Grace
Bumbry will record on four labels and sing in concerts world
wide.
1944 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche is appointed the first African American
official in the U.S. State Department.
1971 - Dr. Melvin H. Evans is inaugurated as the first elected governor
of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
1985 - Congressman William H. Gray is elected chairman of the House
Budget Committee, the highest congressional post held by an
African American.
1986 - David Robinson blocks a N.C.A.A. record 14 shots while playing
for the U.S. Naval Academy.
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