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Akwasi Osei

Updated: Jun 9, 2022

Harry Belafonte becomes the first Black person to win an Emmy Award on this day 1960 for his TV show, Tonight with Harry Belafonte.



 






Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr, singer, songwriter, musician and consummate entertainer, was born on this day in 1949.










 




Muhammad Ali, the Greatest of all time, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr, was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world when he was drafted into the United States Army to go to Vietnam. He refused to be drafted on religious grounds; however, he was on this day in 1967.



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