*		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). He will join the 
	ancestors on December 21, 1890.

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. She will join the 	
	ancestors on October 26, 1962. She will be inducted 	
	posthumously into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1976. 

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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