* Today in Black History - October 30 *
1831 - Nat Turner is remembered for his role in the slave revolt that
took place in Southampton county, Virginia on August 21.
1939 - Eddie Holland is born in Detroit, Michigan. He will become
one-third of an amazing songwriting and production trio,
Holland-Dozier-Holland. Eddie Holland will not be as successful
on his own as when teamed with brother Brian Holland and Lamont
Dozier. Eddie Holland will score his biggest hit as a solo
artist back in 1962, with "Jamie" reaching number six on the R&B
charts and peaking at #30 pop. He recorded three more songs for
Motown in the mid-'60s, but none of them were hits, and he then
concentrated on songwriting and production. The Holland-Dozier-
Holland trio will write numerous hits for Motown acts through
the '60s before departing in 1968. They will form their own
label in 1970, Hot Wax/Invictus, and will have success for a
while with such acts as The Chairmen Of The Board, Laura Lee,
and the Honey Cone. Some of the songs written by the trio are
"Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Stop! In the Name of
Love", "I Hear a Symphony", "You Keep Me Hangin' On", "Reach
Out", and "I'll Be There." Holland-Dozier-Holland will be
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
1941 - Otis Miles is born in Texarkana, Arkansas. He will become a
rhythm and blues singer known as Otis Williams and will be one
of the original members of the Motown group, The Temptations.
Some of their hits will be "I Can't Get Next to You", "Cloud
Nine", "Runaway Child", "Running Wild", "Just My Imagination",
"Papa was a Rolling Stone", and "Masquerade."
1950 - Phil Chenier is born. He will become a professional basketball
player and will best known as a member of the Washington Bullets
team.
1954 - The Defense Department announces that all units in the armed
forces are now integrated. The announcement comes six years
after President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981.
1966 - Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, students at a California college,
create the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
1976 - Joseph H. Evans is elected president of the United Church of
Christ, the first African American to hold the post in this
predominantly white denomination.
1978 - Esther Rolle wins an Emmy Award for her role in "Summer of
my German Soldier."
1979 - Richard Arrington is the first African American to be elected
mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
1989 - Frank Mingo, CEO of the Mingo Group, joins the ancestors in New
York City. He, along with D. Parke Gibson, Barbara Proctor of
Proctor and Gardner, and Tom Burrell of Burrell Advertising was
one of the pioneering advertising executives who specialized in
targeting African American consumers.
1991 - Led by President Robert L. Johnson, BET Holdings, Inc., the
parent company of Black Entertainment Television, sells 4.2
million shares of stock in an initial public offering on the
New York Stock Exchange. BET is the first African American
company listed on the "Big Board."
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