*              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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