* Today in Black History - August 18 *
1791 - Benjamin Banneker publishes his first Almanac.
1909 - Howard Swanson is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will become a
classical composer who will study in the United States and
Paris, France, and will write music for orchestra, solo voice,
piano, and chamber ensembles.
1934 - Roberto Clemente is born in Puerto Rico. He will win the Gold
Glove award TWELVE consecutive years and play in twelve All-Star
games. He will be the National League's Most Valuable Player
(MVP) in 1966, the MVP in the 1971 World Series, win four separate
National League batting titles, post a .317 career batting average,
and play eighteen seasons, amassing 3,000 hits and hammering 240
home runs. He will join the ancestors at the age of 38, on a
mercy mission to deliver relief supplies to the victims of a
Nicaraguan earthquake. Tragically, his plane, carrying food,
clothing and medical supplies, will crash moments after takeoff
from San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 31, 1972.
1935 - Rafer Johnson is born in Hillsboro, Texas. He will become an
Olympic athlete, winning a gold medal in the decathlon in the
1960 Summer Games in Rome and lighting the torch in the 1984
Games in Los Angeles.
1941 - Matt Snell is born. He will become a professional football player
(running back for the New York Jets). He will be one of the key
players in the Jets victory in Super Bowl III over the Baltimore
Colts.
1954 - James E. Wilkins becomes the first African American to attend a U.S.
presidential cabinet meeting. He is Assistant Secretary of Labor
and attends because the Secretary and Under-Secretary are away.
1963 - James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from
the University of Mississippi.
1964 - South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its
apartheid policies.
1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner is born. He will become an child actor and will
star on the "The Cosby Show" as Theodore "Theo" Huxtable. He will
also star as "Here and Now's" Alexander James and "Malcolm and Eddie's"
Malcolm.
1976 - Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. assumes command of the U.S. Third
Fleet.
1977 - Steven Biko, one of the most influential black student leaders in
South
Africa, is arrested in Port Elizabeth on charges of fomenting unrest
among blacks in the city through his writings. Biko will join the
ancestors in police detention less than a month later, as a result of
a beating by the police.
1981 - Football running back, Herschel Walker, of the University of Georgia,
takes out an insurance policy with Lloyd's of London. The All-American
is insured for one million dollars.
1987 - Earl Campbell, the 'Tyler Rose', announces his retirement from
professional football. Campbell, the 1977 Heisman Trophy winner,
played eight seasons in the National Football League -- and was a star
for the Houston Oilers.
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