Theo Wright becomes the first Black person to get a Theology Degree in the US, 1836
Watson, businesswoman, lawyer, government executive, and diplomat, was born in New York City, New York on November 5, 1918.
1912: Sixty-one Blacks reported lynched.
Death of pianist Art Tatum (46), Los Angeles.
Born in Hattiesburg, Virginia on November 5, 1926, Victoria Jackson Gray Adams became one of the most important Mississipians in the Civil Rights Movement. Her activities included teaching voter registration courses to domestics and sharecroppers, opening of the Freedom Schools during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer of 1964, and serving as a National Board Member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Ms. Gray began service as the field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1962.
Ike Wister Turner was born on November 5, 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
U.S. Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v. Warley) struck down Louisville, Ky., ordinance which required Blacks and whites to live in separate residential areas.
Shirley Verrett died in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 5, 2010 of heart failure.
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1714 Bernardino Ramazzini died. An Italian physician, he was the first to note the relationship between worker’s illnesses and their work environment. Considered the founder of occupational medicine.
1854 Paul Sabatier was born. Organic chemist who researched catalytic organic synthesis. The margarine, oil hydrogenation and methanol industries grew out of his research.
1889 Wyoming voters approved the first constitution in the world granting full voting rights to women.
1893 Raymond Loewy was born. An American design engineer, he designed the Coca Cola bottle, the 1934 Sears Coldspot refrigerator, toothbrushes, etc.
1930 Christiaan Eijkman died (born Aug 11, 1858). A Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi was caused by a poor diet (a lack of vitamin B1), which eventually led to the discovery of vitamins.
1943 'Chef Tell' (Friedman Paul Erhardt) was born (died Oct 26, 2007). A European trained chef, one of the earliest celebrity TV chefs. He made appearances on Saturday Night Live, numerous talk shows, the PBS show 'In the Kitchen With Chef Tell' and was the inspiration for the Muppet's 'Swedish Chef.' He was also a restaurant owner, cookbook author & culinary educator.
1946 Musician Gram Parsons was born. Member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
1963 Viking ruins were found by archaeologists in Newfoundland, dated to about the year 1,000. Leif Ericson had landed at 'Vinland' - 500 years before Columbus 'discovered' the New World.
1977 Guy Lombardo died. Famed band leader of the Royal Canadians, a musical fixture on New Year's Eve for decades. Known as 'Mr. New Years Eve'
1990 Raymond Oliver died (born 1909). One of the great chefs of postwar France. Chef and owner of the famous Le Grand Véfour restaurant in Paris.
2000 David Ross Brower died. Brower was the founder of many environmental organizations including the Friends of the Earth and Earth Island Institute.
2013 Charles 'Charlie' Trotter died (born Sept 8, 1959). Famed American chef and restaurateur. His eponymous Chicago restaurant (opened in 1987) was recognized as one of the finest in the world. He was also host of the PBS cooking show 'Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter' and the author of 14 cookbooks.