*               Today in Black History - April 26               *

1785 - John James Audubon is born in Les Cayes, Saint Dominique (later
        Haiti), to an African Caribbean mother and a French father.  He
        will display an early affinity for bird specimens and drawing in
        France, later emigrating to the United States, where he will
        marry a plantation owner's daughter and paint the ground-breaking
        collection "The Birds of America."

1886 - William Levi Dawson is born in Albany, Georgia.  A graduate of Fisk
        University, he will move to Chicago, serve in the 365th Infantry
        in World War I, become an attorney and initially be involved in
        Republican politics upon his return to the city after the war.
        Elected to his first term in the United States Congress in 1942,
        he will serve 27 years in the House, where he will become the first
        African American representative to chair a committee of Congress,
        the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, in 1949.

1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

1968 - Students seize the administration building at Ohio State.

1984 - Jazz musician great William Allen "Count" Basie, dies in Hollywood,
        Florida at the age of 77.

1991 - Maryann Bishop Coffey is named the first woman and the first African
        American co-chair of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

1992 - "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia theater on Broadway.  Gregory
        Hines will portray the great jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton and
        will receive a Tony award as best actor in a musical in that role.

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