* 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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