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William C. Handy:
William Christopher Handy, The Man Known As The Father Of The Blues," Was Born November 16, 1873, In Florence, Alabama.
He Published "Memphis Blues" On September 27, 1912, And Gave The World Its First Uniquely African American Music Form.
Handy
Was A Trained Musician Who Made Blues Music More "Respectable" And
Mainstream. Traditionally It Had Been Heard In Brothels, Saloons Train
Yards And The Back Streets Of The Mississippi Delta.
And While
He Did Not Invent Blues Music, He Was The First To Make It
Comtemporary, By Notating And Putting It To Sheet
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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams:
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Founded Freedman's Hospital School Of Nursing, On November 15, 1894.
The School Became A Part Of Howard University In 1969 And Had Graduated 1,700 Nurses Before It Closed In 1973.
In 1891, Williams Opened Chicago's Provident Hospital. For The First Time There Was A Facility Specifically Established To Formally Train Black Women To Become Nurses. Provident Was Also The Nation's First Interracial Hospital.
Dr. Williams Made History On July 9, 1893, When He Performed The First Successful Open Heart Surgery On Record. He
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Marie Selika Williams:
On November 14, 1878, The National Republican Reported On A Historic Event That Had Taken Place In The White House Green Room.
Opera
Singer, Marie Selika Williams And Her Husband, Baritone, Sampson
Williams, Performed A Private Concert For Preisdent Rutherford Hayes
And His Wife. In Doing So, Marie Salika Williams Became The First Black Americans To Perform In The White House.
A
Coloratura Soprano, Known As The "Queen Of Stacatto," Marie Selika
Williams Was Born In Natchez, Mississippi In 1849. She Received Her
Musical Training In Ohio And San
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Dwight Gooden:
On November 13, 1985, New York Mets Pitcher, Dwight "Dr. K" Gooden, Won The Cy Young Award , A
Few Days Before His 21st Birthday And After Only Two Seasons In The
Major Leagues.At The Time, Gooden Was The Youngest Pitcher To Ever Win
The Award.
The Cy Young Award Winner Is Determined By A Panel Of 24 Baseball Writers. Gooden Received A Unanimous 24 Votes.
During That Same Year, He Also Became The Youngest Player And Only The Seventh In History, To Sweep Baseball's Triple Crown --- Highest Number Of Wins (24 Games), Strikeouts (268) And Lowest Earned Run
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Sigma Gamma Rho Founders:
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Was Founded November 12, 1922, By Seven Educators In Indiana.
Mary Little,
Who Is Is Credited With Being The Primary Founder, Established Sigma
Gamma Rho On The Campus Of Historically White, Butler University, In
Indianapolis. Vivian Marbury, Bessie Martin, Cubena McClure, Dorothy Whiteside, Nannie Johnson And Hattie Redford, Were The Other Six Women Her Shared Little's Vision Of And Organization Dedicated To Sisterhood, Scholarship And Service.
Sigma
Gamma Rho Was Incorporated Dececember 30, 1929. It Has The
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