*              Today in Black History - October 28             *

1862 - The First Kansas Colored Volunteers, while greatly 
	outnumbered, repulse and drive off a rebel force at Island 
	Mound, Missouri. This is the first engagement for African 
	American troops in the Civil War.

1873 - Patrick Healy becomes president of Georgetown University, 
	the oldest Catholic University in the United States and 
	becomes the first African American president of a 
	predominantly white university in the United States.  

1914 - Omega Psi Phi fraternity is incorporated. Founded in 1911 
	by three students, Frank Coleman, Oscar J. Cooper and 
	Edgar A. Love and their faculty adviser, Ernest Everett 
	Just, the fraternity will grow to have over 90,000 members 
	in chapters throughout the United States and abroad. 

1937 - Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens is born in Brooklyn, New
	York. He will become a professional basketball player for 
	the St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail
	Blazers and Seattle Supersonics. He will also coach every
	team for which he played. In 1995, he will surpass Red
	Auerbach as the NBA winningest coach, with his 939th 
	victory. On March 1, 1996, he will become the first coach 
	to win 1,000 regular season games. He and John Wooden will 
	become the only two persons to be elected to the Basketball
	Hall of Fame as a player and coach.

1948 - Telma Hopkins, singer(Tony Orlando and Dawn) and actress
	(Family	Matters), is born in Louisville, Kentucky.

1965 - Earl Bostic, popular jazz alto saxophonist and winner of the
	1959 Playboy Jazz poll, joins the ancestors in Rochester, 
	New York. The Tulsa, Oklahoma native had begun his career 
	in the Midwest and, after studying music and playing with 
	bands in the South, landed with Lionel Hampton's big band,
	among others. 

1973 - Elmore Smith of the Los Angeles Lakers blocks 17 shots in a 
	game to establish a NBA record.

1981 - Edward M. McIntyre is elected as the first African American 
	mayor of Augusta, Georgia.

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