WILT CHAMBERLAIN Week of Oct. 9-15 October 9 1806—Benjamin Banneker dies in Ellicott Mills, Md., at age 74. Banneker was a brilliant mathematician with a great memory and is credited with completing the layout and design of Washington, D.C.
For the week of Sept. 18-24 1980—Cuban cosmonaut Arnold Tamayo becomes the first Black person to fly on a space mission. He flew on a space craft from the then-Soviet Union.
by Moni Basu (CNN) -- What is Black? Race. Culture. Consciousness. History. Heritage. A shade darker than brown? The opposite of White? Who is Black? In America, being Black has meant having African ancestry. But not everyone fits neatly into a prototypical model of "Blackness." YABA BLAY
