This Day In Quiztory

#OTD Outfielder Darryl Strawberry was selected as the first overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft by the New York Mets. Recording artist David Roughin narrates.

#OTD Priest James Augustine Healy became the first black Bishop in the United States. Actor Tom Wright narrates.

#OTD Activist Sojourner Truth began her journey of activism by changing her name from Isabella Baumfree.

#OTD Anthony Burns, who was captured under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and subsequently freed by abolitionists, was born in Stafford County, Virginia.

#OTD Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen was born.

Happy birthday, Louis Gossett, Jr! Recording artist Martha Wash celebrates the Academy Award winning actor on his 86th birthday!

#OTD Singer Deniece Williams had the number one song in the country with "Let's Hear It For The Boy."

#OTD Tap dance pioneer Bojangles was born in Richmond, Virginia.

#OTD Coleman Young, the 66th mayor of Detroit, MI and the first African American to hold the position, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

#OTD Comedian Jackie "Moms" Mabley died of heart failure at the age of 81.

#OTD The United States Navy permitted new African American enlistees to serve in non-servant roles.

#OTD Former U.S. Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce was appointed registrar of the U.S. Treasury by President James Garfield.

#OTD The state of Rhode Island passed the first law in North America that put restrictions on slavery.

#OTD Hall of fame baseball player James "Cool Papa" Bell was born in Starkville, MS. Actor Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter narrates.

Congressman John Conyers, a 52 year member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in Highland Park, MI.

#OTD Politician Sharon Sayles Belton, the first female and first African American mayor of Minneapolis, was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

#OTD Chicago Cubs pitcher "Toothpick" Sam Jones threw a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the first African American to achieve the feat.

#OTD The Maria Baldwin Home, longtime residence of the first African American female school principal in the Northeast, was designated a National Historic Landmark.

#OTD The Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY installed a Walk of Fame to honor the legends who have graced the Apollo stage.

#OTD The U.S. Navy commissioned warship USS Rodney M. Davis named for the Medal of Honor recipient for his heroism in the Vietnam War.