*                Today in Black History - January 18                 *

 

1856 - Dr. Daniel Nathan Hale Williams is born in Holidaysburg,

            Pennsylvania.  He will graduate from Chicago Medical College 

            in 1883 and begin his practice on Chicago's South Side.  After

            8 years of frustration, not being able to use the facilities 

            at the white hospitals in Chicago, he will found Provident 

            Hospital in 1891 and open it to patients of all races.  He 

            will make his mark in medical history on July 10, 1893, when 

            he performs the world's first successful open heart surgery.

 

1948 - The first courses begin at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

 

1949 - Congressman William Dawson is elected chairman of the House 

            Expenditure Committee.  He is the first African American to 

            head a standing committee of Congress.

 

1958 - Willie Eldon O'Ree becomes the first person of African descent 

            to play in the NHL, when he debuts with the Boston Bruins in 

            a 3-0 win over Montreal in the Forum.  

 

1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and 

            control Parliament by a single seat.

 

1962 - Southern University is closed because of demonstrations 

            protesting the expulsion of student sit-in activists.

 

1966 - Robert C. Weaver takes the oath of office as Secretary of the

            Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Appointed by

            President Lyndon B. Johnson, Weaver becomes the first

            African American to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet.

 

1975 - "The Jeffersons," one of the first TV shows about an African 

            American family, is seen for the first time. The Jeffersons, 

            who move to Manhattan's posh East Side, are the former 

            neighbors of the Bunkers in the sitcom "All in the Family." 

            The Jeffersons will be the first show to introduce the subject 

            of mixed marriages humorously and tastefully in prime time TV. 

            Sherman Hemsley plays George Jefferson and Isabelle Sanford 

            the role of Louise, his wife.

 

1989 - Otis Redding, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder are inducted 

            into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

 

1990 - The South African government announces that it is reconsidering 

            a ban on the African National Congress.

 

1990 - Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry is arrested for allegedly

            purchasing and using crack cocaine in a Washington, DC hotel

            room.  The circumstances surrounding his arrest, trial, and

            conviction on one count of misdemeanor cocaine possession

            will be hotly debated by African American and white citizens

            of the District and elsewhere.

 

1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela's cabinet denies amnesty 

            sought by 3,500 police officers in apartheid's waning days. 

 

2000 - Jester Hairston, who appeared on radio and TV's "Amos 'n' 

            Andy," but who was better known to younger fans as the wise 

            old church member Rolly on the sitcom "Amen," joins the 

            ancestors in Los Angeles, California at the age of 98.


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