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1811 - The first African American to become a college president (Wilberforce
University in Ohio - 1863), Daniel A. Payne, is born in Charleston,
South Carolina. He will become an educator, clergyman, bishop, and
historian of the AME Church.
1842 - James Forten, Sr. joins the ancestors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A businessman who amassed a fortune as a sail maker, Forten was
one of the most influential abolitionists of the first half of
the 19th century. He also was in the midst of many significant
events and was one of Philadelphia's most prominent African
Americans. He was chairman of the first Negro Convention in
1835, helped to organize the 1st African Lodge of Free Masons
in Philadelphia (1787), and one of the founders of the Free
African Society (1787 - which grew into St. Thomas African
Episcopal Church).
1940 - Jimmy Ellis is born in Louisville, Kentucky. He will become a
national Golden Gloves champion and will go on to become the WBA
heavyweight boxing champion from 1968 to 1970. At 197 pounds,
he will be the lightest man to win the heavyweight title in the
past 35 years.
1956 - Eddie Murray is born in Los Angeles, California. He will become
a professional baseball player, winning the American League
Rookie of the Year award in 1977. Over his career, he will hit
over 500 career home runs. That will make him the fifteenth
player in baseball history to reach that milestone, and will
join Willie Mays and Henry Aaron as the only players with 500
home runs and 3000 hits. Murray currently ranks eleventh all
time in hits (3,203), eighth in RBI (1,888), and ninth in games
played (2,950).
1966 - Military leaders oust Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana - while on a peace
mission, in Peking, to stop the Vietnam War.
1980 - Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, the first African Americans to
represent the United States in the Winter Olympics, place 12th
in the four-man bobsled competition. Davenport had been a medal
winner in the 1968 and 1976 Summer Games.
1982 - Quincy Jones wins five Grammys for "The Dude," including
'Producer of the Year.'
1987 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his first
three-point shot. The leading scorer in NBA history had already
scored 36,000 points. Kareem had never scored more than two
points at a time.
1992 - Edward Perkins is nominated United Nations ambassador by
President George H. Bush. Perkins had formerly served as director-
general of the United States Foreign Service and ambassador to
the Republic of South Africa.
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