* Today in Black History - December 10 *
1810 - Tom Cribb of Great Britain defeats beats African American Tom
Molineaux in the first interracial boxing championship. The
fight lasted 40 rounds at Copthall Common in England.
1846 - Norbert Rillieux invents the evaporating pan, which revolutionizes
the sugar industry.
1854 - Edwin C. Berry is born in Oberlin, Ohio. He will become a hotel
entrepreneur and erects a 22-room hotel, Hotel Berry, in
Athens, Ohio. He will be known, at the time of his retirement
in 1921, as the most successful African American small-city
hotel operator in the United States.
1864 - A mixed cavalry force, including Fifth and Sixth Colored Cavalry
regiments, invades southwest Virginia and destroys salt mines
at Saltville. The Sixth Cavalry was especially brilliant in an
engagement near Marion, Virginia.
1910 - Smarting from the humiliation of seeing the Ty Cobb-led Detroit
Tigers tie the Negro Havana Stars in a six game series 3-3,
the "Indianapolis Freeman" states: "The American scribes refused
to write on the matter, it cut so deep and was kept quiet."
Not quiet enough, however, to prevent a ban on Negro teams,
even the Cuban-named clubs, from playing whites.
1943 - Theodore Wilson is born in New York City. He will become an actor
and will star on television in "That's My Mama" (Earl the Postman),
and "Sanford Arms".
1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche is the first African American to be presented
the Nobel Prize. He is awarded the Peace Prize for his efforts
as under-secretary of the United Nations, working for peace in
the middle east.
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize. In
his acceptance speech, he dramatically rejects racism and war
and reaffirms his commitment to "unarmed truth and unconditional
love." He is the youngest person to earn the award.
1965 - Sugar Ray Robinson permanently retires from boxing with six
victories in title bouts to his credit.
1967 - Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays (Otis' backup group)
are killed in the crash of a private plane near Madison, Wisconsin.
Redding is 26 years old. His signature song, "(Sittin' On) The
Dock of the Bay" was recorded just three days before his death.
It will be #1 for four weeks beginning February 10, 1968.
1982 - Pamela McAllister Johnson becomes the first African American woman
publisher of a mainstream newspaper, the "Ithaca Journal."
1984 - South African Anglican Bishop, Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel
Peace Prize.
1999 - Actress Shirley Hemphill joins the ancestors in West Covina,
California at the age of 52. She was best known for her role as the
"waitress with an attitude" on the television series, "What's
Happening!"
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