Black History x #TDIF This Day In Freshness Feb 20, 2013

20 February 2013 TDIF

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1.	1991 – African Americans win eight Grammys African Americans win eight Grammys
2.	1968 – State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstrations State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstrations at Alcorn A&M College.
3.	1963 – Birthday Charles Wade Barkley, 36, basketball player, born Leeds, AL, February 20, 1963
4.	1936 – Death of John Hope Death of John Hope (67), president, Atlanta University.
5.	1936 – Jazz singer Nancy Wilson born Jazz singer, actress, Nancy Wilson born in Chillicothe, Ohio
6.	1929 – Writer Wallace Thurman’s play Harlem opens in NYC. Writer Wallace Thurman’s play Harlem opens in NYC. It is the first successful play by an African American playwright.
7.	1927 – Sidney Poitier born 2/20/1927: On this day Sidney Poitier, who will be the first AfricanAmerican to win an Academy Award in a starring role, is born in Miami, Fl. (Can you name the movie he received the Academy Award for?)
8.	1927 – Sidney Poitier, actor born Actor and thespian Sidney Poitier born.
9.	1900 – J.F. Bickering patents airship invention J.F. Bickering patents airship invention
10.	1895 – Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and a lecturer and editor.

#TDIF This Day In Freshness

February 20th – The Notorious B.I.G. releases the Grammy nominated classic smash hit single “Big Poppa”, on Bad Boy Records, on this day in 1995.

The platinum-selling, chart topping hit song won a Billboard Music Award and was produced by Sean “Puffy” Combs and Chucky Thompson.

“Big Poppa”, from Biggie Smalls’ debut album “Ready To Die”, was one of the late rapper’s most identifiable hit anthems and is considered a nineties hip-hop classic.

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