Today is Thursday, February 1st, the 32nd day of the year. There are 334
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES American Heart Month,
Black History Month, Great American Pie Month, National
Cherry Month, National Children’s Dental Health Month,
National Grapefruit Month, National Weddings Month,
National Freedom Month
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Garrett Morris, 87, comedian
Walter McCarty, 50, basketball player
Big Boi, 49, musician (Outkast)
Knaan, 46, rapper
Rutina Wesley, 45, actress
Kevin Martin, 41, basketball player
Austin Jackson, 37, baseball player
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Charles Lenox Remond, 214, orator/abolitionist (d.1873)
Henry McNeal Turner, 193, politician/1st Black Methodist
Bishop (d.1915)
Langston Hughes, 122, poet/playwright (d. 1967)
Sherman Hemsley, 85, actor (Jeffersons) (d. 2012)
Rick James, 76, singer/funk musician (d. 2004)
Malik Sealy, 54, basketball player (d. 2000)
DEATHS
Dick Bass, 2006, football player (b. 1937)
Don Cornelius, 2012, TV show host (b. 1936)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1810 – 1st insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance
Co. of Philadelphia)
1810 – U.S. Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%).
1865 – J.S. Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct., admitted
to bar.
1871 – Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in
House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates).
1957 – 1st black pilot (P.H. Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline.
1958 – WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1960 – 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro, N.C.
Woolworth.
1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Ala.
1978 – Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage
stamp.
1979 – Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank
robbery.
1981 – Duke Ellington’s musical “Sophisticated Ladies,” premieres in NYC.
1992 – Barry Bonds signs baseball’s highest single year contract ($4.7 mil).
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s
atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2004 – Janet Jackson’s breast is exposed during the half-time show of
Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in U.S. broadcasters adopting a stronger
adherence to FCC censorship guidelines.
HOROSCOPE
As an Aquarius born on February 1st, your personality is characterized by honesty and creativity. While there are plenty of people who enjoy mind games and stretching the truth, you believe that honesty really is the best policy. In all your dealings, professional and personal, you take a straightforward and open approach. Your friends and family appreciate your honesty, which is complimented with a genuine admiration of your imagination and creativity. While you may not realize it, those closest to you can recall many situations where your quick mind created ingenious solutions to problems.
