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August 7, 1956: A then minor league record crowd of 51,713 fans watched former Negro League pitching legend Satchel Paige lead the Miami Marlins to a 6-2 victory over the Columbus Jets at the Orange Bowl. The 50-year-old Paige pitched into the eighth inning and also drove in 3-runs with a double to left-center field. The Marlins were a Triple A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies of the International League and played their home games at Miami Stadium. Cab Calloway and Merv Griffin were among the entertainers who performed before the game. Proceeds went to charity.

In his prime, Satchel Paige was considered one of the most dominant pitchers of his era while playing for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s. He often competed against white Major League players during barnstorming tours and in the winter leagues in Cuba and the Domincan Republic. Former Cardinals hall of fame pitcher Dizzy Dean, called Paige the best pitcher he ever saw. By the time Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1947, Paige was 41 years old and past his prime. But he was still good enough to play at a high level. He played 5 Major League seasons with the Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Browns from 1948 to 1953. Even in his 50s, he could still get professional hitters out. He made his final professional appearance with the Kansas City Athletics in 1965 at the age of 59.

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Alexander Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers

Dumas was born in Villes-Cotterêts. His grandfather was a French nobleman, who had settled in Santo Domingo (now part of Haiti); his paternal grandmother, Marie-Cessette, was an Afro-Caribbean, who had been a black slave in the French colony (now part of Haiti).

Dumas did not generally define himself as a black man and there is not much evidence that he encountered overt racism during his life.

However, his works were popular among the 19th-century African-Americans, partly because in The Count of Monte Cristo, the falsely imprisoned Edmond Dantès, may be read as a parable of emancipation .

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The first all-Black professional basketball team was organized on Feb. 13, 1923.

The New York Renaissance, commonly called the Rens, become one of the dominant teams of the 1920s and 1930s. The team's founder was Robert L. Douglas, whose primary objective was to give New York City's male, Black athletes opportunities to better themselves. In February 1923, Douglas struck an agreement with William Roach, a Harlem-based real estate developer who owned the New Renaissance Ballroom and Casino, and the Rens were born.

With Black players barred from professional basketball leagues, the Rens barnstormed throughout the country, often competing against all-white teams.
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Huey P. Newton
February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - R.I.P.

⏪1974
Mary Wallace began her career as CTA’s first female bus operator. She retired 33 years later.

: George Robert Carruthers was born 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1969, the United States Patent office gave Carruthers credit for inventing the “Image Converter” – an instrument that detects electromagnetic radiation in short wave lengths – and in 1970 his invention recorded the first observation of molecular hydrogen in outer space. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972.

Updated CAM/CLAS Computer Lab Open Hours

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