*                Today in Black History - January 29               *

1837 - Aleksandr Sereyevich Pushkin, a Russian of African ancestry 
	who is considered the "Shakespeare of Russian Literature," 
	joins the ancestors after being killed in a duel.  
	Technically one-eighth African or an octoroon, Pushkin was 
	by all accounts Negroid in his appearance. His verse novel 
	"Eugene Onegin" and other works are considered classics of 
	Russian literature and inspiration for later great Russian 
	writers such as Gogol, Dostoyevski, and Tolstoy.

1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on 
	slavery which included the admission of California into the 
	Union as a free state.

1872 - Francis L. Cardoza is elected State Treasurer of South 
	Carolina.

1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University in 
	1906, is incorporated in the state of New York.

1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University in 
	1908, is incorporated in Washington, DC.

1913 - African Americans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 
	Emancipation Proclamation.  Major celebrations are held in 
	Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana and Nashville, 
	Tennessee.  Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey 
	appropriate money for official celebrations of the event.

1926 - Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman
	admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

1954 - Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.  She will 
	become the first African American woman to host a nationally 
	syndicated talk show and will be nominated for an Academy 
	award for best supporting actress in 1985 for her role in 
	"The Color Purple."  Following in the footsteps of Oscar 
	Micheaux and others, she will also form her own film and 
	television production company, Harpo Studios, in Chicago, 
	Illinois. In 1988, Harpo Studios will take over ownership 
	and production of the "Oprah Winfrey Show," making her the 
	first African American woman to own and produce her own 
	national talk show.

1966 - Charles Mahoney, the first African American delegate to the 
	United Nations, joins the ancestors.  

1981 - William R. "Cozy" Cole joins the ancestors in Columbus, Ohio.
	A jazz drummer who played with Cab Calloway and Louis 
	Armstrong, he was known as a versatile percussionist who 
	played in big bands, comedy jazz groups, and Broadway 
	musicals. In 1958, his recording of "Topsy" became the only 
	drum solo to sell more than one million records.

1999 - Ronnie Lott, formally of the San Francisco 49'ers, is elected 
	to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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