*                Today in Black History - January 18                 *

1856 - Dr. Daniel Nathan Hale Williams is born in Holidaysburg,
        Pennsylvania.  He will graduate from Chicago Medical College in
        1883 and begin his practice on Chicago's South Side.  After 8
        years of frustration, not being able to use the facilities at
        the white hospitals in Chicago, he will found Provident Hospital
        in 1891 and open it to patients of all races.  He will make his
        mark in medical history on July 10, 1893, when he performs the
        world's first successful open heart surgery.

1948 - The first courses begin at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

1949 - Congressman William Dawson is elected chairman of the House
        Expenditure Committee.  He is the first African American to head
        a standing committee of Congress.

1958 - Willie Eldon O'Ree becomes the first person of African descent to
        play in the NHL, when he debuts with the Boston Bruins in a 3-0
        win over Montreal in the Forum.

1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and
        control Parliament by a single seat.

1962 - Southern University is closed because of demonstrations protesting
        the expulsion of student sit-in activists.

1966 - Robert C. Weaver takes the oath of office as Secretary of the
        Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Appointed by
        President Lyndon B. Johnson, Weaver becomes the first
        African American to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet.

1975 - "The Jeffersons," one of the first TV shows about an African
        American family, is seen for the first time. The Jeffersons, who
        move to Manhattan's posh East Side, are the former neighbors of
        the Bunkers in the sitcom "All in the Family." The Jeffersons will
        be the first show to introduce the subject of mixed marriages
        humorously and tastefully in prime time TV. Sherman Hemsley plays
        George Jefferson and Isabelle Sanford the role of Louise, his wife.

1989 - Otis Redding, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder are inducted into
        the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

1990 - The South African government announces that it is reconsidering
        a ban on the African National Congress.

1990 - Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry is arrested for allegedly
        purchasing and using crack cocaine in a Washington, DC hotel
        room.  The circumstances surrounding his arrest, trial, and
        conviction on one count of misdemeanor cocaine possession
        will be hotly debated by African American and white citizens
        of the District and elsewhere.

1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela's cabinet denies amnesty
        sought by 3,500 police officers in apartheid's waning days.

2000 - Jester Hairston, who appeared on radio and TV's "Amos 'n' Andy,"
        but who was better known to younger fans as the wise old church
        member Rolly on the sitcom "Amen," joins the ancestors in Los
        Angeles, California at the age of 98.

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