* Today in Black History - January 18 * 1856 - Dr. Daniel Nathan Hale Williams is born in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He will graduate from Chicago Medical College in 1883 and begin his practice on Chicago's South Side. After 8 years of frustration, not being able to use the facilities at the white hospitals in Chicago, he will found Provident Hospital in 1891 and open it to patients of all races. He will make his mark in medical history on July 10, 1893, when he performs the world's first successful open heart surgery. 1948 - The first courses begin at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. 1949 - Congressman William Dawson is elected chairman of the House Expenditure Committee. He is the first African American to head a standing committee of Congress. 1958 - Willie Eldon O'Ree becomes the first person of African descent to play in the NHL, when he debuts with the Boston Bruins in a 3-0 win over Montreal in the Forum. 1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and control Parliament by a single seat. 1962 - Southern University is closed because of demonstrations protesting the expulsion of student sit-in activists. 1966 - Robert C. Weaver takes the oath of office as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Weaver becomes the first African American to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet. 1975 - "The Jeffersons," one of the first TV shows about an African American family, is seen for the first time. The Jeffersons, who move to Manhattan's posh East Side, are the former neighbors of the Bunkers in the sitcom "All in the Family." The Jeffersons will be the first show to introduce the subject of mixed marriages humorously and tastefully in prime time TV. Sherman Hemsley plays George Jefferson and Isabelle Sanford the role of Louise, his wife. 1989 - Otis Redding, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 1990 - The South African government announces that it is reconsidering a ban on the African National Congress. 1990 - Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry is arrested for allegedly purchasing and using crack cocaine in a Washington, DC hotel room. The circumstances surrounding his arrest, trial, and conviction on one count of misdemeanor cocaine possession will be hotly debated by African American and white citizens of the District and elsewhere. 1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela's cabinet denies amnesty sought by 3,500 police officers in apartheid's waning days. 2000 - Jester Hairston, who appeared on radio and TV's "Amos 'n' Andy," but who was better known to younger fans as the wise old church member Rolly on the sitcom "Amen," joins the ancestors in Los Angeles, California at the age of 98. ______________________________________________________________ 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> Info: <http://www.code1.com/cybercolonies/index.htm> ______________________________________________________________ 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 2003, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.