*		Today in Black History - March 8		*

1825 - Alexander Thomas Augusta is born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He 
	will graduate from Trinity Medical College in Toronto, Canada in
	1856, serve his medical apprenticeship in Philadelphia, and join
	the Union Army in 1863 with the rank of major.  In 1865 he 
	becomes the first African American to head any hospital in the 
	United States, when the Freedmen Bureau establishes Freedmen's 
	Hospital at Howard University with Augusta in charge.  In 1868, 
	Howard University opens its own medical school, with Augusta as 
	demonstrator of anatomy.  He will be the first African American
	to receive an honorary degree from Howard University (1869).

1873 - The United States Senate refuses to seat P.B.S. Pinchback of 
	Louisiana because of alleged election irregularities.

1898 - Louise Beavers is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.  She will become an
	actress and will be cast as the Henderson's maid in "The Beulah 
	Show," the first network show on television to have an African 
	American female in the title role.

1942 - Richard Anthony "Dick" Allen is born in Wampum, Pennsylvania.  He
	will become a professional baseball player with the Philadelphia 
	Phillies in 1963.  He will play in the major leagues for 14 
	years.   

1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley, a graduate of Lincoln School for Nurses in New 
	York, receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse 
	Corps.  She is the first of four African American Navy nurses 
	(including Helen Turner, Ella Lucille Stimley, and Edith De Voe) 
	to serve on active duty in World War II.

1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in a heavyweight boxing championship
	match billed as the "fight of the century." Ali was previously 
	undefeated.  Both Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali collect $2,500,000 
	for the fight. 

1977 - Henry L. Marsh, III is elected the first African American mayor 
	of Richmond, Virginia.

1991 - "New Jack City," a film directed by Mario Van Peebles, actor and 
	son of director Melvin Van Peebles, premieres.  Produced by 
	African Americans George Jackson and Doug McHenry, the film, 
	which tells the violent story of the rise and fall of a drug 
	lord played by Wesley Snipes, will suffer from widespread 
	violence among moviegoers.

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