Fifty-three Blacks reported lynched in 1920.
Juanita Long Hall was born November 6, 1901 (or 1902) in Keyport, New Jersey, and died February 29, 1968, in Bayshore, New York.
Born Arch Colson Whitehead on November 6, 1969, novelist Colson Whitehead spent his formative years in Manhattan, New York with his parents, Arch and Mary Anne Whitehead, who owned a recruiting firm, and three siblings. Of his childhood, he has said that he preferred reading science fiction and fantasy and watching horror films. He attended Trinity School in New York, NY, and later, Harvard University in Massachusetts where he studied English and Comparative Literature. At Harvard, Whitehead became friends with classmate Kevin Young, a poet and current director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. After graduating with a B.A. in 1991, Whitehead worked for the Village Voice as a music, book, and television critic. He left the paper in the late nineties and has since taught at several universities including Columbia, University of Houston in Texas, and Princeton in New Jersey. He is married to the literary agent, Julie Barer, with whom he has two children.
To date, Whitehead has published a total of eight books. His six novels include The Intuitionist (1999); John Henry Days (2001); Apex Hides the Hurt (2006); Sag Harbor (2009); Zone One (2011); and The Underground Railroad (2016). His two works of nonfiction include a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York (2003), and a memoir, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death (2011). The Intuitionist has been compared to Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, and established Whitehead as a talented writer early in his career. The novel is both speculative crime story and a parable about racial progress. It follows Lila Mae Watson, an Intuitionist elevator inspector, an affiliation of inspectors at odds with the Empiricists. Whitehead writes across a variety of fictional genres including horror (Zone One), social realism (Sag Harbor), absurdist fiction (John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt), and fabulist fiction (The Underground Railroad).
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1217 The Charter of the Forest was issued by King Henry III, returning rights to the common man including access, pasture, grazing, cutting turf, collecting firewood, and ended harsh penalties. In 1154 King Henry II had placed restrictions and levies on woodland, fields, heathland, etc.
1814 Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax was born. A musical instrument maker, he invented the saxophone.
1879 The first official observance of Canadian Thanksgiving holiday. Now observed on 2nd Monday in October.
1905 The Broadway production of J.M. Barrie's most famous work opened in New York: 'Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'
1914 Morton Salt first used "When It Rains It Pours" trademark slogan for its salt.
(Salt Trivia & Facts --- Salt Quotes)
1923 HyperInflation ran rampant in Europe. A loaf of bread cost 140 Billion German Marks.
1975 'Good Morning America' premiered on TV.
1976 David Marine died (born Sep 20, 1888). An American pathologist whose research on the treatment of goitre with iodine led to the iodizing of table salt.
1991 'Cream' by Prince & The NPG is #1 on the charts.
1993 The world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich to date, was created in Peanut, Pennsylvania. It was almost 40 feet long and used 150 pounds of peanut butter and 50 pounds of jelly.
2018 California voters approved the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative. By 2020 egg-laying hens must have at least 1 square foot of space per hen, and each calf raised as veal must be provided with at least 43 square feet of space. By 2022 female pigs used for breeding must have at least 24 square feet of space per pig. Hens must be kept in cage-free housing with at least 1 square foot of space per hen.