* Today in Black History - September 30 *
1935 - John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is born in San Francisco, California.
He will become a romantic pop singer who will amass more than
50 gold and platinum records for such hits as "Misty". He will
also have the distinction of having an album on the Billboard
pop charts for the longest period, 560 weeks.
1935 - "Porgy and Bess," a folk opera by composer George Gershwin, has
its premiere in Boston at the Colonial Theatre. It was a flop!
It was revived in 1942 and ran longer than any revival in the
history of American musical theater.
1942 - Frankie Lymon is born in New York City. He will become the lead
singer of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers and will record his
signature song, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?," at age fourteen. He
will develop a serious drug problem before he turns twenty and will
join the ancestors after succumbing to a drug overdose on the
bathroom floor of his grandmother's apartment at age 25, on February
28, 1968.
1943 - Marilyn McCoo (Davis) is born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She
will become a singer with the group, "The Fifth Dimensions". Some
of the hits with the group will be "Up, Up and Away," and "Aquarius."
She will have a solo hit, "One Less Bell to Answer," and will record
"You Don't Have to be a Star" with her husband, Billy Davis, Jr. She
will later become a TV hostess for "Solid Gold" from 1981-1984, and
from 1986-88. She will also be a TV music reporter for "Preview."
1962 - A large force of federal marshals escorts James H. Meredith to the
campus of the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy
federalizes the Mississippi National Guard. University of
Mississippi students and adults from Oxford, Mississippi, and other
southern communities riot on the university campus. Two persons are
killed and one hundred or more are wounded.
1966 - Bechuanaland becomes the independent Republic of Botswana with Sir
Seretse Khama as its first President.
1975 - Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier square off in a fight billed as "The
Thrilla in Manila". Ali will win the fight and retain his world
heavyweight title when, after 14 rounds, Frazier's trainer refuses
to let him continue.
1976 - Two Centuries of Black American Art opens at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. The exhibit features over 60 lithographers,
painters, and sculptors including 19th century masters Joshua
Johnston, Edward Bannister, and Henry O. Tanner as well as modern
artists Charles White, Romare Bearden, and Elizabeth Catlett. The
introduction to the exhibit's catalogue asserts that the assembled
artists' work proves that the human creative impulse can triumph in
the face of impossible odds, and at times even because of them.
1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first freely elected
president, is overthrown by a military junta. The three-member
junta that takes over begins a campaign of terror and violence that
in a three-year period will cause the deaths of over 5000 Haitians
and force tens of thousands to flee the island by boat. Jean-Bertrand
Aristide sat in the presidency for only seven months.
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