On this day in 1950 Natalie Cole, singer and daughter of music legend Nat King Cole was born in Los Angeles, California.
On this day in 1884, Willis Johnson received a patent for inventing the tool for mixing food, popularly called the eggbeater.
Radical Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania on this day in 1866 proposed in Congressional debate on the Freedmen’s Bureau the idea of continuing the practice that started during the war which allocated white confiscated lands to freed Africans after the Civil War. Newly installed president Andrew Johnson, an ally of the Confederates, ensured that this policy did not become law. It was the idea of Forty Acres and a Mule, which reasoned that the newly freed would need resources to live.
ML Baseball legend Henry ‘Hammering Hank’ Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama on this day in 1934. A former Negro Leagues player, Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record in 1974 by hitting 715 home runs. He is considered among the top five best baseball players ever.
Barack Hussein Obama became the first African American to be named president of the Harvard Law Review on this day in 1990.
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