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******* Today in Black History – December
10, 2013 *******
1810 - Tom Cribb of Great Britain defeats beats African
American Tom
Molineaux in the first interracial boxing
championship. The fight lasted 40 rounds at Copthall
Common in England.
1846 - Norbert Rillieux invents the evaporating pan, which
revolutionizes the
sugar industry.
1854 - Edwin C. Berry is born in Oberlin, Ohio. He will become
a hotel
entrepreneur and erects a 22-room hotel, Hotel
Berry, in Athens,
Ohio. He will be known, at the time
of his retirement
in 1921, as the most successful
African American
small-city hotel operator in the
United States. He
will join the ancestors in 1931.
1864 - A mixed cavalry force, including Fifth and Sixth Colored
Cavalry regiments,
invades southwest Virginia and
destroys salt mines
at Saltville. The Sixth Cavalry
was especially
brilliant in an engagement near Marion,
Virginia.
1910 - Smarting from the humiliation of seeing the Ty Cobb-led
Detroit Tigers tie
the Negro Havana Stars in a six game
series 3-3, the
"Indianapolis Freeman" states: "The
American scribes
refused to write on the matter, it cut
so deep and was
kept quiet." Not quiet enough, however,
to prevent a ban on
Negro teams, even the Cuban-named
clubs, from playing
whites.
1943 - Theodore Wilson is born in New York City. He will become
an actor and will
star on television in "That's My Mama"
(Earl the Postman),
and "Sanford Arms".
1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche is the first African American to be
presented the Nobel
Prize. He is awarded the Peace Prize
for his efforts as
under-secretary of the United Nations,
working for peace
in the middle east.
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within the British
Commonwealth.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. receives the Nobel Peace
Prize.
In his acceptance
speech, he dramatically rejects racism
and war and
reaffirms his commitment to "unarmed truth
and unconditional
love." He is the youngest person
to
earn the award.
1965 - Sugar Ray Robinson permanently retires from boxing with
six victories in
title bouts to his credit.
1967 - Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays (Otis'
backup group) join
the ancestors after being killed in
the crash of a
private plane near Madison, Wisconsin.
Redding is 26 years
old. His signature song, "(Sittin'
On) The Dock of the
Bay" was recorded just three days
before his death.
It will be #1 for four weeks beginning
February 10, 1968.
1982 - Pamela McAllister Johnson becomes the first African
American woman
publisher of a mainstream newspaper, the
"Ithaca
Journal."
1984 - South African Anglican Bishop, Desmond Tutu receives the
Nobel Peace Prize.
1999 - Actress Shirley Hemphill joins the ancestors in West
Covina, California
at the age of 52. She was best known
for her role as the
"waitress with an attitude" on the
television series,
"What's Happening!"
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"InfoBeat,"
"I, Too, Sing
Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
independent research by Rene’ A. Perry.
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