Today's Selected Black Facts.
1884. The Berlin Conference began. It was convened to set up the rules of the Scramble for Africa. It is worth noting that no Africans were in attendance.
1887. Inventor Granville Woods Received a U.S. patent for the Synchronous Multiplier Railway Telegraph. A variation of the "induction telegraph," it allowed for messages to be sent between moving trains and railway stations. By allowing dispatchers to know the real-time location of each train, it provided for greater safety and a led to a reduction in railway accidents.
1894. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded the Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing. The school was eventually turned over to Howard University, which phased it out when they established the Howard University College of Nursing in 1969.
1916. Nurse, politician, and administrator, Dame Ruth Nita Barrow was born in Barbados, West Indies..
1950. Hockey Barrier falls. Arthur Dorrington becomes the 1st black man in organized hockey, representing the Atlantic City Seagulls of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League
1964. Marcus Garvey's body was brought back to Jamaica from England where he died in 1940, and buried in the National Heroes Park in Kingston.
1969. Tanzania and Zambia signed an agreement with China on the construction of the 1,800-kilometer Tanzam Railway between Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania and Kpiri Moshi in Zambia
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