* Today in Black History - October 28 *
1862 - The First Kansas Colored Volunteers, while greatly outnumbered,
repulse and drive off a rebel force at Island Mound, Missouri.
This is the first engagement for African American troops in the
Civil War.
1873 - Patrick Healy becomes president of Georgetown University, the
oldest Catholic University in the United States and becomes
the first African American president of a predominantly white
university in the United States.
1914 - Omega Psi Phi fraternity is incorporated. Founded in 1911 by
three students, Frank Coleman, Oscar J. Cooper and Edgar A.
Love and their faculty adviser, Ernest Everett Just, the
fraternity will grow to have over 90,000 members in chapters
throughout the United States and abroad.
1937 - Lenny Wilkens is born. He will become a professional basketball
player for the St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland
Trail Blazers and Seattle Supersonics. He will also coach
every team for which he played. In 1995, he will surpass Red
Auerbach as the NBA winningest coach, with his 939th victory.
On March 1, 1996, he will become the first coach to win 1,000
regular season games. He and John Wooden will become the only
two persons to be elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as
a player and coach.
1948 - Telma Hopkins, singer(Tony Orlando and Dawn) and actress(Family
Matters), is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1965 - Earl Bostic, popular jazz alto saxophonist and winner of the
1959 Playboy Jazz poll, joins the ancestors in Rochester, New
York. The Tulsa, Oklahoma native had begun his career in the
Midwest and, after studying music and playing with bands in the
South, landed with Lionel Hampton's big band, among others.
1973 - Elmore Smith of the Los Angeles Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game
to establish a NBA record.
1981 - Edward M. McIntyre is elected as the first African American
mayor of Augusta, Georgia.
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