*               Today in Black History - March 8                *

1825 - Alexander Thomas Augusta is born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He
        will graduate from Trinity Medical College in Toronto, Canada in
        1856, serve his medical apprenticeship in Philadelphia, and join
        the Union Army in 1863 with the rank of major.  In 1865 he
        becomes the first African American to head any hospital in the
        United States, when the Freedmen Bureau establishes Freedmen's
        Hospital at Howard University with Augusta in charge.  In 1868,
        Howard University opens its own medical school, with Augusta as
        demonstrator of anatomy.  He will be the first African American
        to receive an honorary degree from Howard University in 1869.

1873 - The United States Senate refuses to seat P.B.S. Pinchback of
        Louisiana because of alleged election irregularities.

1898 - Louise Beavers is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.  She will become an
        actress and will be cast as the Henderson's maid in "The Beulah
        Show," the first network show on television to have an African
        American female in the title role.

1942 - Richard Anthony "Dick" Allen is born in Wampum, Pennsylvania.  He
        will become a professional baseball player with the Philadelphia
        Phillies in 1963.  He will play in the major leagues for 14
        years.

1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley, a graduate of Lincoln School for Nurses in New
        York, receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse
        Corps.  She is the first of four African American Navy nurses
        (including Helen Turner, Ella Lucille Stimley, and Edith De Voe)
        to serve on active duty in World War II.

1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in a heavyweight boxing championship
        match billed as the "fight of the century." Ali was previously
        undefeated.  Both Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali collect $2,500,000
        for the fight.

1977 - Henry L. Marsh, III is elected the first African American mayor
        of Richmond, Virginia.

1991 - "New Jack City," a film directed by Mario Van Peebles, actor and
        son of director Melvin Van Peebles, premieres.  Produced by
        African Americans George Jackson and Doug McHenry, the film,
        which tells the violent story of the rise and fall of a drug
        lord played by Wesley Snipes, will suffer from widespread
        violence among moviegoers.

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