James Varick is consecrated as the first Bishop of the AME Zion Church.

Louis Emmanuel Lomax, newscaster, author, education, dies.

Carl Lewis wins his fourth consecutive Olympic goal medal.

Stokley Carmichael, civil rights activist, is born in Trinidad.

Musician Charlie Christian is born.

The NAACP organizes 10,000 blacks to mark in a silent protest parade against lynchings and other forms of racial discrimination.

The Reverend. C.L. Franklin, activist, minister, gospel singer, and father of Aretha Franklin dies after laying in a coma for 5 years.

Inventor Garrett Morgan dies.

Rafer Lewis Johnson, U.S. Decathlon champion, sets a world record in the decathlon by scoring 8,302 points.

Larry Doby and “Bullet” Joe Rogan, Negro League pitchers, are elected into the Major League Hall of Fame.