*               Today in Black History - April 8                *

1922 - Carmen McRae is born in New York City.  She will begin her
        professional career in her 20's with Benny Carter and be a
        renowned jazz vocalist for more than forty years.

1938 - Cornetist and bandleader Joe "King" Oliver dies in Savannah,
        Georgia.  He was considered one of the leading musicians of New
        Orleans-style jazz and served as a mentor to Louis Armstrong,
        who played with him in 1922.

1974 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th home run against
        a pitch thrown by Los Angeles Dodger Al Downing at a home game
        in Fulton County Stadium. Aaron's home run breaks the long-
        standing record of Babe Ruth.

1980 - State troopers are mobilized to stop disturbances in
        Wrightsville, Georgia.  Racial incidents are also reported in
        Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oceanside, California, Kokomo, Indiana,
        Wichita, Kansas, and Johnston County, North Carolina.

1987 - Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis is fired for alleged
        racially biased comments about the managerial potential of
        African Americans.

1990 - Percy Julian, who helped create drugs to combat glaucoma and
        methods to mass produce cortisone, and agricultural scientist
        George Washington Carver are the first African American
        inventors admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in
        the hall's 17-year history.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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