Day In History

September 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the United States Department of the Treasury was founded, the day Joseph W. Hatchett was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court, making him the first African American Supreme Court Justice in the South, and the birthday of artist Romare Bearden.

September 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ethel Waters passed away, the day the first Black person graduated from the Harvard Dental School, and the day a coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrew President David Dacko.

August 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ishi emerged from the wilderness of Northeastern California, the day the Mutual Black Network was purchased by the Sheridan Broadcasting Corp., and the birthday of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.

August 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the day W.E.B. Du Bois died, and the birthday of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

August 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Tlingit Indians destroyed Fort Selkirk, the day the Ruby Ridge Standoff began in Idaho, and the birthday of Count Basie.

August 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day news broke on the East Coast about the gold rush in California, the day Radio Caroline was raided, and the birthday of singer and harmonica player Lynwood Slim.

August 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from this day in history, including women's suffrage passing in 1920, the Battle of Britain in 1940, and the first black person graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1963.

August 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Republic of the Congo gained its independence, the day the Panama Canal opened and the day Belgian painter René Magritte died.

August 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses some events from this day in history, including the deaths of Florence Nightingale, HG Wells, and Julia Child, and the births of Annie Oakley, Alfred Hitchcock, and Fidel Castro. It is also the day the Central African Republic declared its independence.

August 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day American painter and musician Jean-Michel Basquiat died, the day Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine, and the day South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

August 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the start of the Watts Race Riots, the day civil rights attorney Oliver White Hill Sr. was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton, and the day the world's first roller rink opened in Rhode Island.

August 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the African Baptist Church was organized in Boston, the day Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence Bessie Smith, and the day Cesar Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.

August 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania, the day in 1960 Black and white students staged kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches, and the day Simón Bolívar triumphed over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

August 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France, the day Nelson Mandela was jailed, and the day Marilyn Monroe died.

August 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1834, the day of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, and the day Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón passed away.

July 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the city of Baltimore was founded, the day President Lincoln issued an “eye-for-eye” order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot, and the day Charles Mingus recorded his solo Piano Album ‘Mingus Plays Piano'.

July 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Today is the birthday of singer Ethel Waters, whose tough childhood didn't keep her from success.

July 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day of the 1771 Bloody Falls Massacre, the birthday of Frank Snowden, foremost scholar on blacks in ancient history, and 1967 race riot in Cairo, Illinois.

July 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including kissing was banned in England as an attempt to stop the spread of disease; La Paz, Bolivia declared its independence from the Spanish Crown; and journalist and civil rights activist Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born.

July 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the day All-Negro Comics, the first known comic magazine written and drawn by African American writers and artists, was copyrighted; the day the steel strike of 1959 began; and the birthday of jazz pianist Philly Joe Jones.

July 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some events from this day in history: The beginning of the French Revolution, the birth of singer Lady Bo, the arrival of Marcus Garvey in Jamaica, and the day Alabama and Mississippi Democrats walked out of the DNC.

July 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from this day in history, including an important moment in the Boxer Rebellion, the founding of the Wimbleton tourney, and the death of actor James Baskett, the first African American to win an honorary Oscar.

July 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from this day in history, including the US congress allowing the registration of trademarks in 1870, and the start of the Wall Street Journal in 1889.

July 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from today in history, including the birthday of Charles Albert Tindley, and duel holidays Saba Saba Day in Tanzania and Tanabata Day in Japan.

June 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including Independence Day in Korea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, the day Congress created present day Oklahoma, and the birthday of Lena Horne.

June 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened in this day in history, including the day the Liberty bell came home to Philadelphia after the British departure, the day Prudence Crandall, a white woman, was arrested for conducting an academy for black girls in Canterbury, CT, and the birthday of anarchist Emma Goldman.

June 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc chats about various events from this day in history, including a few landmark governmental passings.

June 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about the events of this day in history, including Virginia becoming the tenth state to ratify the US Constitution, and, four score years later, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina being readmitted to the Union. It is also the day the Zip code was introduced to the United States fifty-one years ago, and the day the Supreme Court upheld the male-only draft as constitutional thirty-three years ago.