Today is Saturday, August 5th, the 217th day of the year. There are 148
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES National Catfish Month,
National Golf Month, National Picnic Month, Romance
Awareness Month, Peach Month, National Simplify Your
Life Week, National Underwear Day, National Oyster Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Chip Fields, 72, actress
Patrick Ewing, 61, basketball player/coach
Otis Thorpe, 61, basketball player
Funkmaster Flex, 55, rapper/producer/radio host
DeRay Davis, 55, actor
Kent King, 49, actress
Carl Crawford, 42, baseball player
Lolo Jones, 41, track star
Vanessa Simmons, 40, reality star
Dawn Richard, 40, singer
C.J. Spiller, 36, football player
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
James A. Healy, 193, 1st black bishop in America (d. 1900)
Gertrude E. Durden Rush, 143, composer/playwright 9d. 1962)
Ja’net Dubois, 78, actress (Good Times) (d. (2019)
DEATHS
James Augustine Healy, 1900, black Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1830)
George Duke, 2013, singer/songwriter/keyboard player/producer (b. 1946)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1624 – William of Jamestown Va. is the 1st black child born in English America.
1864 – Gunner, John Lawson earned Congressional Medal.
1914 – The first electric traffic lights, invented by Garrett Morgan installed in
Cleveland.
1936 – At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal.
1950 – Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain heavyweight boxing title.
1957 – American Bandstand debuts on the ABC television network.
1962 – Nelson Mandela imprisoned in South Africa. He would not be
released until 1990.
1966 – Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march.
1970 – Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail.
1975 – Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown.
1979 – Willie Mays inducted in Hall of Fame.
1984 – Track and Field stars Evelyn Ashford and Edwin Moses win gold
medals in the Los Angeles Olympics.
1992 – 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge.
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