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1818 - The first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the United
	States, Absalom Jones, joins the ancestors in Philadelphia, 
	Pennsylvania.  He was an instrumental force in the development 
	of the early African American church and benevolent society 
	movements. 
        
1882 - Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist, preacher, diplomat and 
	protest leader, joins the ancestors in Monrovia, Liberia at the 
	age of 66.

1892 - The first African American performers, the  World's Fair 
	Colored Opera Company, appear at New  York City's Carnegie Hall 
	less than one year after the hall's opening.   In the company 
	is concert singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones, who will have her 
	solo debut at Carnegie Hall two years later. 

1907 - Wendell P. Dabney establishes "The Union."  The Cincinnati, Ohio 
	paper's motto is "For no people can become great without being 
	united, for in union, there is strength." 

1919 - Eddie Robinson is born.  He will accept the head coaching 
	position in 1941, at the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial 
	Institute in Grambling, Louisiana (later named Grambling State 
	University.   Over the next 54 years, he will become the 
	winningest college football coach.  On October 7, 1995, he will
	win his 400th game, establishing a record and securing his 
	status as a legend.  Sports Illustrated will place Robinson on 
	the cover of its October 14, 1995 issue, making him the first 
	and only coach of an historically Black university to appear on 
	the cover of any major sports publication in the United States. 
	To his credit, he will produce 113 NFL players, including four 
	Pro Football Hall of Famers. 

1920 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs is 
	founded by Andrew "Rube" Foster.  They will be called the Negro
	National League.  It will become the first successful African
	American professional baseball league.  Two other leagues had
	previously been started, but failed to last more than one 
	season.

1923 - The first African American professional basketball team "The  
	Renaissance" is organized by Robert J. Douglas.  It is named 
	after its home court, the Renaissance Casino.  They will play 
	from 1923 to 1939 and have a record of 1,588 wins against 239
	losses.  They will become the first African American team in 
	the Basketball Hall of Fame.    

1957 - The Southern Leadership Conference is founded at a meeting of 
	ministers in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Martin Luther King, Jr. 
	is elected its first president.  Later in the year its name 
	will be changed to the Southern Christian Leadership 
	Conference. 

1976 - General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, who came to power in
	1975 after General Gowon is ousted, joins the ancestors after
	being killed in an unsuccessful counter-coup.  His chief of 
	staff, General Olusegun Obasanjo, will assume Mohammed's post 
	and his promise to hand over political power to civilian rule.

1996 - Minister Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Islam, visits Iran to 
	celebrate its 1979 revolution ousting the Shah.

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