*                  Today in Black History - January 3                *

1621 - William Tucker is born in Jamestown, Virginia.  He is the first
        African American child, on record, born in the American colonies.

1945 - The Albany Institute of History and Art in New York State opens
        its exhibit "The Negro Artist Comes of Age: A National Survey of
        Contemporary American Artists."  The show includes works by Aaron
        Douglas, William H. Johnson, Palmer Hayden, Eldzier Cortor, Lois
        M. Jones, and others and will run for five weeks.

1947 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's
        annual report calls 1946 "one of the grimmest years in the history
        of the NAACP."  The report details violence and atrocities heaped
        on "Negro veterans freshly returned from a war to end torture and
        racial extermination," and said "Negroes in America have been
        disillusioned over the wave of lynchings, brutality and official
        recession from all of the flamboyant promises of post war democracy
        and decency."

1947 - William Dawson becomes the first African American to head a
        congressional committee; Congressional proceedings are televised
        for the first time as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and
        New York got to see some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th
        Congress.

1956 - The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1870,
        officially changes its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal
        Church.  The denomination is headquartered today in Memphis,
        Tennessee, and comprises a membership of nearly 500,000.

1961 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is elected Chairman of The House Education
        and Labor Committee.

1966 - Floyd B. McKissick, a North Carolina attorney, is named national
        director of The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

1969 - Louis Stokes is sworn in as the first African American congressman
        from the state of Ohio.  He will serve more that ten terms in
        Congress and be distinguished by his leadership of the 1977
        Select Committee on Assassinations and chairmanship of the House
        Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee).

1969 - Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is seated by Congress
        after being expelled by Congress in 1967, and re-elected by the
        voters in his Harlem district.

1983 - Tony Dorsett sets an NFL record with a 99-yd rush, in a game
        between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings.

1984 - Syria frees captured U.S. pilot Robert Goodman, shot down over
        Damascus, after a personal appeal from Rev. Jesse Jackson.

1985 - Soprano, Leontyne Price bids adieu to the Metropolitan Opera in
        New York. She sings the title role of "Aida".  Price had been
        part of the Metropolitan Opera since 1961.

1985 - The Israeli government confirms the resettlement of 10,000
        Ethiopian Jews.

1987 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first female artist -
        "Lady Soul," Aretha Franklin.

1989 - "The Arsenio Hall Show" premieres.  It is the first regularly
        scheduled nightly talk show to star an African American.

1997 - Bryant Gumbel co-hosts his final "Today" show on NBC.

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