*		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.  
	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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