* 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 (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. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html> ______________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.