*               Today in Black History - October 23             *

1775 - The Continental Congress approves resolution prohibiting the
        enlistment of African Americans in the Army.

1783 - Virginia emancipates slaves who fought for independence during
        the Revolutionary War.

1790 - Slave revolt in Haiti occurs, which is later suppressed.

1847 - William Leidesdorff brings his ship Sitka from Sitka, Alaska,
        to San Francisco, California.  Earlier in the year, the Danish
        West Indies Native had launched the first steamboat ever to
        sail in San Francisco Bay. The ventures were one of many
        activities for Leidesdorff, which included appointment as
        United States vice-counsel, for property acquisition in San
        Francisco.

1886 - Wiley Jones operates the first streetcar system in Pine Bluff,
        Arkansas.

1911 - Three organizations, The Committee for Improving the Industrial
        Conditions of Negroes in New York, The Committee on Urban
        Conditions and The National League for the Protection of
        Colored Women merge, under the leadership of Dr. George E.
        Hayne and Eugene Kinckle Jones, to form the National Urban
        League.  Eugene Kinckle Jones is named executive secretary.

1940 - Edson Arantes do Nascimento is born in a small village in Brasil
        called Trjs Coragues in the Brasilian state of Minas Gerais.
        He will become a soccer player and at the age of sixteen will
        join the Brasilian National team.  He will be known world-wide
        as Pele', seen as greatest player in history of soccer.  After
        retiring from his team, the Santos, he will be recruited to
        play for the New York Cosmos in 1971, playing an additional
        three years.  He will score 1,281 goals in his career.

1945 - Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers signs Jackie Robinson
        to the club's Triple A farm team, the Montreal Royals.  In a
        little under 18 months, Robinson will be called up to the
        majors, the first African American to play major league
        baseball.

1947 - NAACP petition on racism and racial injustice, "An Appeal to
        the World," is presented to the United Nations at Lake Success,
        New York.

1951 - The NAACP pickets the Stork Club in support of Josephine Baker,
        who had been refused admission to the club a week earlier.
        After a city-convened special committee calls Baker's charges
        unfounded, Thurgood Marshall will call the findings a "complete
        and shameless whitewash of the long-established and well-known
        discriminatory policies of the Stork Club."

1968 - Kip Keino of Kenya wins Olympic Gold Medal for 1,500 meter run
        (3 min 34.9 sec).

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