*		 Today in Black History - October 10         *

1874 - South Carolina Republicans carry the election with a 
	reduced victory margin.  The Republican ticket is 
	composed of four whites and four Blacks.

1899 - J.W. Butts, inventor, receives a patent for a luggage 
	carrier.

1899 - I. R. Johnson patents his bicycle frame.

1901 - Frederick Douglass Patterson is born in Washington, DC.
	He will receive doctorate degrees from both Iowa State 
	University and Cornell University.  Dr. Patterson will 
	serve as the president of Tuskegee Institute from 1935 
	to 1955.  In 1943, he will organize a meeting of the 
	heads of Black colleges to conduct annual campaigns 
	for funds needed to help meet the operating expenses of 
	27 Black colleges and universities.  This will result
	in the formation of the United Negro College Fund. Dr. 
	Patterson will serve as its first president. 

1917 - Thelonious Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.  
	He will	become an innovative jazz pianist and composer 
	of ‘Round Midnight.' Monk will be considered one of the
	fathers of jazz improvisation and in 1961 will be 
	featured on the cover of Time magazine, only one of 
	three jazz musicians so honored at that time.

1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres at the 
	Alvin Theater in New York City. 

1946 - Ben Vereen is born in Miami, Florida.  He will become a 
	dancer and multi-faceted entertainer.

1953 - Gus Williams is born. He will become a professional 
	basketball player and NBA guard with the Golden State 
	Warriors, Seattle Supersonics, and Washington Bullets.

1957 - President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister 
	of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused 
	service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

1961 - Otis M. Smith is appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court 
	and becomes the first African American on the high 
	court.

1978 - Congressman Ralph H. Metcalfe joins the ancestors in 
	Chicago at the age of 68.

1989 -  South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that 
	eight prominent political prisoners, including African 
	National Congress official Walter Sisulu, would be 
	unconditionally freed, but that Nelson Mandela would 
	remain imprisoned.

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