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* Today in Black History - August 10 *
1827 - A race riot occurs in Cincinnati, Ohio. More than one
thousand African Americans leave the city for Canada.
1835 - A mob of white citizens and a hundred yoke of oxen pull
an African American school house into a swamp outside
the town of Canaan, New Hampshire.
1858 - Anna Julia Cooper is born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
She will become an influential African American
intellectual, educator, and founder of Frelinghuysen
University.
1867 - Famed Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, joins the
ancestors.
1944 - A race riot occurs in Athens, Alabama.
1948 - Patti Austin, popular contemporary soul singer (The Real
Me), is born.
1967 - Riddick Bowe is born. He will become a professional
boxer who will win the World Heavyweight Title with an
unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield, and lose the
title back to Holyfield in November, 1993.
1980 - Composer and violinist, Clarence C. White, joins the
ancestors.
1981 - The Coca-Cola Bottling Company agrees to pump $34 million
into African American businesses and the African
American community, ending a national boycott called by
Operation PUSH.
1984 - Olympic athlete Carl Lewis repeats Jesse Owens' record of
four gold medals in the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including every Beatle
song) for $ 47 million.
1989 - General Colin Powell is nominated to be chairman, Joints
Chiefs of Staff, becoming the first African American to
hold the post.
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