Today In Black History - February 5, 2015 [VIDEO]

107 Jamz celebrates Black History month. Today in history President Barack Obama became the first African American to be named president of the Harvard Law Review.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama-photo Michael Kovac via Getty Images

107 Jamz salutes African Americans who've made & continue to make history through art, music, inventions and more. To the artists on the canvas or stage, to the poets, the authors, the inventors, innovators and trailblazers, we honor and remember them all, especially every Black History Month.

1866

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to Freedmen's Bureau bill authorizing the distribution of public land and confiscated land to freedmen and loyal refugees in forty acre lots. Ever heard the term ....40 acres and a mule? Unfortunatly this measure was defeated in the House by a vote of 126 to 37. Frederick Douglas would later lead a black delegation and called on President Johnson and urged ballots for former slaves. Meeting sparked widespread controversy after Johnson reiterated his opposition to black suffrage.

1901

Georgia's first African American congressman and the first African American to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Jefferson Franklin died in Washington D.C.

1934

Born on this day is Henry "Home Run King" Aaron. Without question he is one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Not only did Hank Aaron break Babe Ruth's home-run record in 1979, with his 715th homer, but he set another MLB record with 755 career home runs.

1950

On this day Nate King Cole's baby girl, Natalie Cole is born in Los Angeles, California. Singing professionally at age 11, by 1976 Cole had won Grammy's for New Artist of the Year and Best R&B Female Vocalist.

1958

The first African American to head a U.S. embassy in Europe was, Clifton R. Wharton Sr. Wharton was a career diplomat and confirmed as minister to Rumania.

1962

A suit seeking to bar Englewood, N.J., from maintaining "racial segregated" elementary schools was filed in U.S. District Court.

1990

Columbia University graduate and Harvard University law student President Barack Obama became the first African American to be named president of the Harvard Law Review.

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Today In Black History – February 5, 2015 [VIDEO]