This Day in Quiztory

#OTD South Africa's Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving 27 years. Actor Hill Harper narrates.

#OTD Scholar and educator Dr. Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone College, was born in Elizabeth City, NC. Producer and DJ Galestian narrates.

#OTD Astronaut Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a space walk. Recording artist Howard Hewett celebrates this achievement.

#OTD Figure skater Debi Thomas won the ladies' singles title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the first African American to do so. Actor Gary Anthony Williams narrates.

#OTD We mark the anniversary of the inaugural celebration of what we know as Black History Month. Negro History Week was founded by Carter G. Woodson 96 years ago. Entrepreneur Russell Simmons narrates.

#OTD The United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp in honor of abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth. Recording artist Wyclef Jean narrates.

#OTD Journalist P.L. Prattis became the first African American news correspondent admitted to the press galleries of the U.S. Congress. Pastor and recording artist Montell Jordan narrates.

#OTD Golfer Pete Brown, the first African American to win a PGA Tour event, was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

#OTD Four students from North Carolina A&T sat at a Woolworth's lunch counter to protest the whites-only policy. This sit-in sparked a movement in protest of segregation around the country. Chicago public school teacher Kimiko Cowley-Pettis narrates.

#OTD Hall of fame boxer Jersey Joe Walcott was born in Merchantville, New Jersey

#OTD The charity single "We Are The World" was recorded by supergroup USA For Africa to aid in famine relief on the continent.

#OTD Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell, the first African American to have his illustrations syndicated nationally, passed away at the age of 65.

#OTD Entrepreneur Sheila Crump Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, was born in McKeesport, PA.

#OTD Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman collapsed during a game in Japan and passed away at the age of 31.

#OTD Rod Paige was confirmed as the nation's 7th U.S. Secretary of Education and the first African American to hold the position.

#OTD Catcher Josh Gibson, the second Negro League player to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, died of a stroke at the young age of 35.

#OTD Publisher John H. Johnson, founder of Johnson Publishing Company and creator of Ebony and Jet magazines, was born in Arkansas City, AR.

#OTD The television sitcom The Jeffersons, a spin-off of the popular All In The Family, premiered on CBS.

#OTD Physicist Ronald McNair was selected to be a NASA astronaut. He was one of the seven crew members to perish in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.

#OTD Students at the University of Minnesota, representing the Afro American Action Committee, staged a sit-in at the main administration building on campus.

#OTD Gene Mitchell Gray became the first African American student to enroll at the University of Tennessee.

#OTD Playwright and best selling novelist Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles, CA. Happy 70th birthday!

Happy 51st Birthday, Mary J. Blige! The queen of hip-hop/soul was born #OTD in Bronx, NY.

#OTD Chris Smith, aka Daddy Mac, one half of the rap duo Kris Kross, was born in Atlanta, GA.

#OTD The James Weldon Johnson Collection of American Negro Arts and Letters, established by photographer Carl Van Vechten, opened on the campus of Yale University.