Reverie is the second mixtape by American recording artist Tinashe, first released September 6, 2012 via her official website.
Elba was born in London, England, on September 6, 1972. His father, Winston, was a Sierra Leonean who worked in the Ford Motor Factory at Dagenham, and his mother, Eve, was Ghanaian who worked in various clerical jobs. Elba was raised in East Ham, a suburb of London. In 1986 he began to help in his uncle’s disk jockey (DJ) business, but within a year Elba started his own DJ company. In 1988 after graduating from school, Elba won a place in the National Youth Music Theatre after receiving a £1,500 Prince Trust grant.
Kendrick Meek, former highway patrolman, Florida state representative, and state senator, has served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Florida’s 17th District since 2003. Meek was born on September 6, 1966 in Miami, Florida, and is the son of former U.S. Representative Carrie Meek, who also represented Florida’s 17th District before her son took over her position.
(It is widely accepted that John Brown Russwurm was the first
Black to graduate college in America on September
6, 1826 at Bowdoin College. However, just 14 days before Edward
Jones graduated Amherst College in Massachusetts.)
Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas Ranger in the police force's 165 year history.
Sylvester James, American singer and songwriter, was born in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California to Sylvester James and Letha Weaver on September 6, 1947.
Katherine Dunham (1910-)
American dancer, choreographer, and scholar.
She was a pioneer in the use of folk and ethnic choreography, and considered one of the founders of the anthropological dance movement.
With "Aida" in 1963, she became the first Black to choreograph for the Metropolitan Opera in New York city.
Danny K. Davis was born in Parkdale, Arkansas on September 6, 1941, the son of a sharecropper. He received a B.A. in history from Arkansas A.M. & N. College in 1961 and then moved to Chicago. In 1968 he earned an M.A. from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. degree from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
After becoming involved in the Chicago civil rights movement in the 1960s, Davis served as a consultant for many public service organizations and as an educator in area universities. He was executive director of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission, director of training at the Martin Luther King Neighborhood Health Center, and executive director of the Westside Health Center. He also was an Alderman of the 29th ward on the Chicago City Council and served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners. In 1991 he made an unsuccessful run for mayor of Chicago. Five years later in 1996, he decided to run for the Congressional seat on Chicago’s west side. Davis was elected to represent Chicago’s 7th District and has served in Congress since then.
Congressman Davis is a member of a number of Congressional Caucuses including the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Community Health Centers Caucus, the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, and the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues. Davis is Chair of the Congressional Postal Caucus and is a Regional Whip in the Democratic Caucus. He is a leading Congressional supporter of the National Federation of the Blind
• National Coffee Ice Cream Day
• St. Magnus of Fussen's Day, patron of crops.
On this day in:
1620 The Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth, England aboard the Mayflower; 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew members.
1800 Catherine Esther Beecher was born (died May 12, 1878). American educator and author of 'Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book' (1841). This was the first cookbook written by and for an American audience.
1847 Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts, ending his 2 years of simple living at Walden Pond.
1876 John James Rickard Macleod was born (died March 16, 1935). He shared the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frederick Banting for the discovery of insulin and its role in the metabolism of sugar.
1888 Brahma beer was introduced in Brazil. Companhia Cervejaria Brahma was the 5th largest brewery in the world in 2013.
1892 John Froelich made the first gasoline powered tractor.
1899 Carnation began producing evaporated milk (called Carnation Sterilized Cream).
1916 Clarence Saunders founded Piggly Wiggly grocery store chain in Memphis, Tennessee. The first true self service grocery store.
1963 Skye Gyngell was born in Australia. Chef at Petersham Nurseries Cafe in Britian, food editor for Vogue magazine.
2004 Belgian brewer Interbrew merged with Brazilian brewer Ambev to form InBev, the world's largest brewer by volume.
2020 A record setting heat wave in Southern California; Woodland Hills in L.A. County hit 121 degrees, Escondido 115 degrees. Wildfires have burned over 2,094,000 acres, the worst year on record.
National Black Convention met in Cleveland with some seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass was elected president of the convention.
African American Jordan Freeman dies after killing Major William Montgomery in the Battle of Groton Heights
Foxy Brown is an African American rap musician, model and actress. Her birth name is Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand. She was born on September 6, 1978 in Brooklyn, New York. As a teenager, she won a talent contest, where she was discovered by the rapper LL Cool J’s production team. They were so impressed by her rapping skills that they signed her on to rap on LL Cool J’s upcoming album “I Shot Ya”. This was followed by appearances on several other artists’ songs and albums such as “You’re Makin’ Me High” by Toni Braxton and “Ain’t No Nigga” by Jay-Z. Her early success led to many labels singling her out and she eventually signed with Def Jam Records. She was also featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 film “The Nutty Professor” starring Eddie Murphy.
The same year, Brown released her debut album titled “Ill Na Na”. The album was produced by Trackmasters and sold more than 109,000 copies in the first week alone. It debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 album charts. It included several performances from other artists such as Jay-Z, Blackstreet, Method Man and Kid Capri. It was eventually certified platinum, with two of the most popular singles being “Get Me Home” and “I’ll Be”. After the successful release of her debut album, Brown went on to form a band named “The Firm” along with hip hop super stars Nas, AZ and Nature. Their first album was titled “Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album” which sold half a million records and was certified gold.
Brown’s second studio album, ‘Chyna Doll’ was released in 1999 and sold 173,000 copies in its opening week. Sales couldn’t keep up, but the album was eventually certified platinum. Her third album “Broken Silence” was released in 2001 and debuted on the Billboard charts at #5. Her album “Black Roses” remained unreleased due to legal troubles and her temporary hearing loss between 2005 and 2006. In 2007, Brown signed on to Koch Records with whom she released the street album “Brooklyn’s Don Diva. It reached #83 on the Billboard 200 chart.