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0810 - Today in Black History - August 10
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*		Today in Black History - August 10         *

1827 - A race riot occurs in Cincinnati, Ohio. More than one 
	thousand African Americans leave the city for Canada.

1835 - A mob of white citizens and a hundred yoke of oxen pull 
	an African American school house into a swamp outside 
	the town of Canaan, New Hampshire.

1858 - Anna Julia Cooper is born in Raleigh, North Carolina.  
	She will become an influential African American 
	intellectual, educator, and founder of Frelinghuysen 
	University. 

1867 - Famed Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, joins the 
	ancestors.

1944 - A race riot occurs in Athens, Alabama.

1948 - Patti Austin, popular contemporary soul singer (The Real
	Me), is born.

1967 - Riddick Bowe is born.  He will become a professional 
	boxer who will win the World Heavyweight Title with an
	unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield, and lose the
	title back to Holyfield in November, 1993.

1980 - Composer and violinist, Clarence C. White, joins the 
	ancestors.

1981 - The Coca-Cola Bottling Company agrees to pump $34 million
	into African American businesses and the African 
	American community, ending a national boycott called by 
	Operation PUSH.          

1984 - Olympic athlete Carl Lewis repeats Jesse Owens' record of
	four gold medals in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. 

1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including every Beatle 
	song) for $ 47 million.

1989 - General Colin Powell is nominated to be chairman, Joints
	Chiefs of Staff, becoming the first African American to 
	hold the post.

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