This Day In Quiztory

Today we celebrate hall of fame forward Karl "The Mailman" Malone on his 57th birthday.

On this day in 2006, Tiger Woods won The Open Championship, tying the lowest score in the tournament's history, just three month after his father's death

Today we shine a spotlight on trailblazing judge Jane Bolin, the country's first black female judge.

On this day in 1896, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs was founded

On this day, the inaugural Black Power Conference was held in Newark, NJ in 1967

Today we celebrate Toni "Tomboy" Stone, the first woman to play professional baseball, as part of the Negro Leagues

On this day in 1988, Florence Griffith-Joyner ran a world record time of 10.49 in the 100m sprint at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, IN

On this day, Black Enterprise Founder Earl Graves, Sr. was awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal in 1999

On this day, the largest slave uprising was scheduled to be carried out. Denmark Vesey, the organizer of the revolt, was caught and hanged two weeks before the plan was executed.

In New York City, protests and rioting erupted over the implementation of a draft for soldiers during the Civil War

Today we celebrate politician David Dinkins on his 93rd birthday! Dinkins was the 106th mayor of New York and the only African American to hold that position.

#OTD Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. The procedure was done at his hospital, Provident Hospital and Training School For Nurses, in Chicago, Illinois

Today we shine a spotlight on swing era bandleader Billy Eckstine

#OTD "When Doves Cry" by Prince and the Revolution began a five week chart run at number one on the Billboard Hot 100

Today we celebrate songstress Phyllis Hyman on what would be her 71st birthday.

Today we shine a spotlight on Olympic gold medalist Calvin Smith, dubbed the "fastest man alive" after his record-breaking 100m sprint.

Today we shine a spotlight on the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a Roman-Catholic sisterhood founded by women of African descent in Baltimore, Maryland

Today we celebrate Negro League Baseball player Ben Taylor, first baseman and one-time coach of the Indianapolis ABCs

Today we celebrate singer and actress Lena Horne on what would be her 103rd birthday.

Today we celebrate hall of fame high jumper Charles Dumas, the first person to clear a height of seven feet.