*		Today in Black History - March 19		*

1867 - Congressman Thaddeus Stevens calls up resolution providing 
	for the enforcement of the Second Confiscation Act of July, 
	1862. The measure, which provides for the distribution of 
	public and confiscated land to the freedmen, is defeated.

1870 - "O Guarani," the most celebrated opera by Afro-Brazilian 
	composer Antonio Carlos Gomes, premiers at the Scala Theater
	in Milan, Italy.  His enormous musical talent opened the 
	doors of the Milan Conservatory where he studied under the 
	guidance of the greatest opera directors of the time. Among 
	other operas, Gomes produces "Fosca," "Condor," and 
	"O Escravo" (The Slave).

1872 - T.J. Boyd, inventor, awarded patent for apparatus for 
	detaching horses from carriages.

1937 - The Count Basie Orchestra, with vocalists Billie Holiday and 
	Jimmy Rushing, opens at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.

1939 - The New Negro Theater is founded in Los Angeles, California, 
	by Langston Hughes.  The company stages as its first 
	performance Hughes's play, "Don't You Want to be Free?" 

1952 - Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton is posthumously awarded the 
	Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the Korean 
	War. He joins the ancestors after being killed in action on
	June 2, 1951.

1967 - French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association 
	with France.

1968 - Students take over the Administration Building at Howard 
	University demanding resignation of university officials 
	and a stronger orientation to Black culture in the 
	curriculum. It is the first of many college protests over
	Black Studies programs on African American and white college
	campuses across the nation.

1995 - Twenty one months after retiring from basketball, Michael 
	Jordan returns to professional basketball with his former 
	team, the Chicago Bulls.

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