Today is Wednesday, May 24th, the 144th day of the year. There are 221
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Date Your Mate Month,
Foster Care Month, National Barbecue Month, National Bike
Month, National Blood Pressure Month, National Photograph
Month, National Recommitment Month, National Salad Month,
Older Americans Month, National Water Safety Month,
National Escargot Day,
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Timmy Brown, 86, football player
Patti LaBelle, 79, singer
Larry Blackmon, 67, singer/songwriter (Cameo)
Joe Dumars, 60, basketball player/executive
Gene Anthony Ray, 60, dancer
Carl Anthony Payne II, 53, actor
Tracy McGrady, 44, basketball player
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Oliver Cromwell, 270, Revolutionary War hero
Coleman Young, 104, civil rights leader (Detroit Mayor) (d. 1997)
Heavy D., 56, rapper (d. 2011)
DEATHS
William Lloyd Garrison, 1879, journalist/abolitionist (b. 1805)
Elmore James, 1963, singer/guitarist (b. 1918)
Duke Ellington, 1974, pianist/composer/bandleader (b. 1899)
Jimmy McGriff, 2008, organist (b. 1936)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1854 – Lincoln University, Penn., 1st Black college in the U.S.
is founded by John Miller Dickey and Sarah Emlen Cresson.
1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 – Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler declares slaves “contraband of
war”.
1951 – Racial segregation in Wash. D.C. restaurants ruled illegal.
1954 – Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st Black to head an
AMA unit.
1961 – Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for
“disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
1963 – Baldwin-Kennedy meeting on race relations in the U.S.
1983 – Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks
to schools that racially discriminate against students.
1984 – “Wiz” opens at Lunt Fontanne Theatre in New York City
for 13 performances.
1990 – Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks
in a game.
2001 – The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the
first time since 1994 when Sen, James Jeffords of Vermont
abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an
independent.
HOROSCOPE
Your sign is paired with the air element, which plays a subtle but important role in your personality. Taking on the changing qualities of air, a sociable curiosity seems to come over you like a steady breeze. When the winds become stronger, your curiosity may evolve into an outright push for knowledge or justice. You should embrace these qualities as they are some of the most positive that the element of air has to offer. You should stay weary of the fact that not embracing the push of air, even at its lightest, can cause an unwanted distance and lack of emotion.
