*                   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 - A major slave revolt occurs in Haiti, 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 Três Corações 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 in the twentieth century.

1947 - The 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."

1966 - "Supremes" Album Tops U.S. Charts. The record "Supremes A Go Go"
        becomes the top-selling LP album in the U.S.  It is the first
        album by an all-female group to reach that position.  One of the
        most successful groups of its kind, the Supremes, fronted by
        Diana Ross, will have seven albums reach the top 10 during the
        1960s.

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

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