* Today in Black History - January 18 *
1856 - Dr. Daniel Nathan Hale Williams is born in Hollidaysburg,
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.
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