*              Today in Black History - September 16             *

1795 - The British capture Capetown in South Africa.

1848 - France abolishes slavery in all of its colonies and territories.

1889 - Claude A. Barnett, founder of the Associated Negro Press, is
        born.

1889 - William Foster, Negro Baseball League player, is born.

1893 - The Oklahoma land rush into the territory's Cherokee strip
        begins.  Among the participants is E.P. McCabe, who will
        establish the all African American town of Liberty a few days
        later.  McCabe was also involved in the earlier establishment
        of the African American town of Langston, Oklahoma, named for
        John Mercer Langston, Virginia's first African American
        congressman.

1915 - The United States takes control of customs & finances in Haiti
        for the next 10 years.

1921 - Jon Carl Hendricks, who will become an influential singer in
        the jazz group Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, is born in Newark,
        Ohio.

1925 - Riley B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi.  He will
        become a blues great, known as B(lues) B(oy) King.  Playing
        his guitar, nicknamed 'Lucille,' King will have over 50 hit
        blues albums and win a 1970 Grammy for "The Thrill Is Gone".

1933 - Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, is
        released by United Artists.  It is Robeson's first starring
        movie role and the first major Hollywood production starring
        an African American with whites in supporting roles.

1934 - Elgin Baylor is born.  He will become a NBA star beginning as
        the 1958-59 Rookie of the Year with the Los Angeles Lakers.
        He will set the NBA Playoff Record for points scored in a game
        (61), and for points scored in a playoff series (284) [both in
        1962].

1937 - Orlando Cepeda, major league baseball player with the Giants,
        Cardinals, and Braves, is born.  Cepeda will have a career
        average of .297, play in 2,124 games, produce 379 home runs
        and 1,365 RBI.

1947 - Lucius Allen is born.  He will become a NBA star with the
        Milwaukee Bucks.

1953 - Earl Klugh, Jazz pianist/guitarist, is born.

1965 - San Francisco's Grace Cathedral becomes the site of the first
        concert of sacred music presented by Duke Ellington.

1971 - Six Klansmen arrested in connection with the bombing of 10
        school buses in Pontiac, Michigan.

1981 - Boxer 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, at age 25, knocks out Thomas 'The
        Hit Man' Hearns.  Leonard wins the welterweight boxing
        championship -- and the richest payday in boxing history.

1989 - Debbye Turner, a senior at the University of Missouri
        Veterinary School, is crowned Miss America. She is the third
        African American to win the crown since the pageant began in
        1921.

1990 - Keenen Ivory Wayans' "In Living Color" wins an Emmy for
        Outstanding Comedy Series.

1993 - Minnesota Twins' slugger Dave Winfield becomes the 19th
        player to get 3,000 career hits.

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