*                Today in Black History - January 29                 *

1837 - Aleksandr Sereyevich Pushkin, a Russian of African ancestry who
        is considered the "Shakespeare of Russian Literature," joins
        the ancestors after being killed in a duel.  Technically one-
        eighth African or an octoroon, Pushkin was by all accounts
        Negroid in his appearance.  His verse novel "Eugene Onegin" and
        other works are considered classics of Russian literature and
        inspiration for later great Russian writers such as Gogol,
        Dostoyevski, and Tolstoy.

1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery
        which included the admission of California into the Union as
        a free state.

1872 - Francis L. Cardoza is elected State Treasurer of South Carolina.

1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University in
        1906, is incorporated in the state of New York.

1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University in
        1908, is incorporated in Washington, DC.

1913 - African Americans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
        Emancipation Proclamation.  Major celebrations are held in
        Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana and Nashville,
        Tennessee.  Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey appropriate
        money for official celebrations of the event.

1926 - Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman
        admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

1954 - Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.  She will
        become the first African American woman to host a nationally
        syndicated talk show and will be nominated for an Academy award
        for best supporting actress in 1985 for her role in "The Color
        Purple."  Following in the footsteps of Oscar Micheaux and
        others, she will also form her own film and television
        production company, Harpo Studios, in Chicago, Illinois.  In
        1988, Harpo Studios will take over ownership and production of
        the "Oprah Winfrey Show," making her the first African American
        woman to own and produce her own national talk show.

1966 - Charles Mahoney, the first African American delegate to the
        United Nations, joins the ancestors.

1981 - William R. "Cozy" Cole joins the ancestors in Columbus, Ohio.  A
        jazz drummer who played with Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong,
        he was known as a versatile percussionist who played in big
        bands, comedy jazz groups, and Broadway musicals.  In 1958, his
        recording of "Topsy" became the only drum solo to sell more than
        one million records.

1999 - Ronnie Lott, formally of the San Francisco 49'ers, is elected to
        the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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