*1940: Journalist Bernard Shaw was born.
*1948: Poet Claude McKay died.
*1959: Benjamin Davis Jr. became the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force. (His father was the first Black general in the U.S. Army)
*1966: Bill Cosby became first Black to win an Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.
*1967: Langston Hughes died.
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