* Today in Black History - October 28 * 1862 - The First Kansas Colored Volunteers, while greatly outnumbered, repulse and drive off a rebel force at Island Mound, Missouri. This is the first engagement for African American troops in the Civil War. 1873 - Patrick Healy becomes president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in the United States and becomes the first African American president of a predominantly white university in the United States. 1914 - Omega Psi Phi fraternity is incorporated. Founded in 1911 by three students, Frank Coleman, Oscar J. Cooper and Edgar A. Love and their faculty adviser, Ernest Everett Just, the fraternity will grow to have over 90,000 members in chapters throughout the United States and abroad. 1937 - Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will become a professional basketball player for the St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Supersonics. He will also coach every team for which he played. In 1995, he will surpass Red Auerbach as the NBA winningest coach, with his 939th victory. On March 1, 1996, he will become the first coach to win 1,000 regular season games. He and John Wooden will become the only two persons to be elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player and coach. 1948 - Telma Hopkins, singer(Tony Orlando and Dawn) and actress (Family Matters), is born in Louisville, Kentucky. 1965 - Earl Bostic, popular jazz alto saxophonist and winner of the 1959 Playboy Jazz poll, joins the ancestors in Rochester, New York. The Tulsa, Oklahoma native had begun his career in the Midwest and, after studying music and playing with bands in the South, landed with Lionel Hampton's big band, among others. 1973 - Elmore Smith of the Los Angeles Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game to establish a NBA record. 1981 - Edward M. McIntyre is elected as the first African American mayor of Augusta, Georgia. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Rene' A. Perry "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.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 1997 - 2010, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.