*              Today in Black History - November 9              *

1731 - Benjamin Banneker, inventor of the first clock made in
        America, is born in Ellicott Mills(now Ellicott City), Maryland.

1868 - The Howard University Medical School opens with eight students.

1868 - Arkansas Governor Powell Clayton, declares martial law in ten
        counties and mobilizes the state militia in a Ku Klux Klan
        crisis.

1898 - Paul Robeson, actor(King Solomon's Mines), singer, political
        activist and two-time college football All-American, is born.

1923 - Dorothy Dandridge is born in Cleveland, Ohio.  She will try
        vaudeville and a stint at the Cotton Club before finding her
        most noteworthy success as an actress.  She will appear in
        such works as "Porgy and Bess" and minor movie roles before
        her big break in a series of low-budget movies including
        "Tarzan's Perils".  While simultaneously maintaining a
        singing career, Dandridge will have her greatest success in
        "Carmen Jones" opposite Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Diahann
        Carroll, and Brock Peters, which will earn her an Academy
        Award nomination, a first for an African American actress.

1925 - Oscar Micheaux's movie "Body and Soul" is released. It marks
        the film debut of Paul Robeson.

1931 - Eugene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, football star with the old
        Baltimore Colts, is born.

1935 - Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinal pitcher (NL MVP 1968, Baseball
        Hall of Fame: career strike-outs: 3,000: Cy Young Award-
        winner [1968, 1970], Baseball Writers Award [1968]: World
        Series [1964, 1967, 1968], Nine Gold Glove Awards) is born.

1961 - The Professional Golfers Association eliminates their
        caucasians only rule.

1965 - Willie Mays is named the National League's Most Valuable
        Player.

1970 - William L. Dawson, Democratic congressman and party leader,
        in Chicago, Illinois, dies at the age of 84.

1976 - The United Nations General Assembly endorses 10 resolutions
        condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one that
        says the white-only government is "illegitimate."

1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retires from professional boxing for the
        first time, because of a recurring eye problem sustained in
        a welter-weight title match.

1990 - Freedom Bank in New York City, one of the largest African
        American-owned banks in the nation, is declared insolvent.
        Its losses in 1988-1989 totaled $4.7 million, and it was
        expected to lose $2 million in 1990.  A last-minute effort
        to revive the bank by raising funds from the local Harlem
        community will fail to meet the government-imposed deadline.

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