*                Today in Black History - January 29            *

1837 - Aleksandr Sereyevich Pushkin, a Russian of African ancestry 
	who is considered the "Shakespeare of Russian Literature," 
	joins the ancestors after being killed in a duel.  
	Technically one-eighth African or an octoroon, Pushkin was 
	by all accounts Negroid in his appearance.  His verse 
	novel "Eugene Onegin" and other works are considered 
	classics of Russian literature and inspiration for later 
	great Russian writers such as Gogol, Dostoyevski, and 
	Tolstoy.

1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on 
	slavery which included the admission of California into 
	the Union as a free state.

1872 - Francis L. Cardoza is elected State Treasurer of South 
	Carolina.

1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University 
	in 1906, is incorporated in the state of New York.

1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University 
	in 1908, is incorporated in Washington, DC.

1913 - African Americans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of 
	the Emancipation Proclamation.  Major celebrations are 
	held in Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana and 
	Nashville, Tennessee.  Pennsylvania, New York and New 
	Jersey appropriate money for official celebrations of 
	the event.

1926 - Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American 
	woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme 
	Court.

1954 - Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.  She 
	will become the first African American woman to host a 
	nationally syndicated talk show and will be nominated 
	for an Academy award for best supporting actress in 
	1985 for her role in "The Color Purple."  Following in 
	the footsteps of Oscar Micheaux and others, she will 
	also form her own film and television production 
	company, Harpo Studios, in Chicago, Illinois.  In 
	1988, Harpo Studios will take over ownership and 
	production of the "Oprah Winfrey Show," making her the 
	first African American woman to own and produce her 
	own national talk show.

1966 - Charles Mahoney, the first African American delegate to 
	the United Nations, joins the ancestors.  

1981 - William R. "Cozy" Cole joins the ancestors in Columbus, 
	Ohio.  A jazz drummer who played with Cab Calloway and 
	Louis Armstrong, he was known as a versatile 
	percussionist who played in big bands, comedy jazz 
	groups, and Broadway musicals.  In 1958, his recording 
	of "Topsy" became the only drum solo to sell more than
	one million records.

1999 - Ronnie Lott, formally of the San Francisco 49'ers, is 
	elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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