* Today in Black History - September 16 *
1795 - The British capture Capetown in South Africa.
1848 - France abolishes slavery in all of its colonies and territories.
1859 - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and
Mozambique, is first seen by a european, British explorer David
Livingstone.
1889 - Claude A. Barnett, founder of the Associated Negro Press, is
born.
1889 - William Foster is born. He will become a star in the Negro
Baseball League.
1893 - The last Oklahoma land rush, targeted in the territory's Cherokee
strip (outlet) begins. More than 100,000 homesteaders rushed to
claim a share of the 6 million acres in this strip of land
between Oklahoma and Kansas, opened up by the U.S. government.
Among the participants is E.P. McCabe, who will establish the
all African American town of Liberty a few days later. McCabe
was also involved in the earlier establishment of the African
American town of Langston, Oklahoma, named for John Mercer
Langston, Virginia's first African American congressman. The
Oklahoma land rushes started in 1889, but African Americans were
excluded from the first one.
1915 - The United States takes control of customs & finances in Haiti
for the next 10 years.
1921 - Jon Carl Hendricks is born in Newark, Ohio. He will become an
influential singer in the jazz group, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.
1925 - Riley B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He will become
a blues great, known as B(lues) B(oy) King. Playing his guitar,
nicknamed 'Lucille,' King will have over 50 hit blues albums and
win a 1970 Grammy for "The Thrill Is Gone".
1933 - Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, is released
by United Artists. It is Robeson's first starring movie role and
the first major Hollywood production starring an African American
with whites in supporting roles.
1934 - Elgin Baylor is born. He will become a NBA star beginning as the
1958-59 Rookie of the Year with the Los Angeles Lakers. He will
set the NBA Playoff Record for points scored in a game (61), and
for points scored in a playoff series (284) [both in 1962].
1937 - Orlando Cepeda, major league baseball player with the Giants,
Cardinals, and Braves, is born. Cepeda will have a career average
of .297, play in 2,124 games, produce 379 home runs and 1,365 runs
batted in.
1947 - Lucius Allen is born. He will become a NBA star with the Milwaukee
Bucks.
1953 - Earl Klugh, Jazz pianist/guitarist, is born.
1965 - San Francisco's Grace Cathedral becomes the site of the first
concert of sacred music presented by Duke Ellington.
1971 - Six Klansmen are arrested in connection with the bombing of 10 school
buses in Pontiac, Michigan.
1981 - Boxer 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, at age 25, knocks out Thomas 'The Hit Man'
Hearns. Leonard wins the welterweight boxing championship -- and
the richest payday in boxing history.
1989 - Debbye Turner, a senior at the University of Missouri Veterinary
School, is crowned Miss America. She is the third African American
to win the crown since the pageant began in 1921.
1990 - Keenen Ivory Wayans' "In Living Color" wins an Emmy for Outstanding
Comedy Series.
1993 - Minnesota Twins' slugger Dave Winfield becomes the 19th player to
get 3,000 career hits.
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