BH EVERYDAY - the Lewis Temple/Ralph Bunche edition Love, Laugh, Donate Life - N. A. M. Lewis Temple, invented the Temple-Toggle on this date in 1848. This invention revolutionized the whaling industry by giving the hook a harpoon that held whales securely. John H. Johnson, founder of Johnson Publishing Co. and publisher of Ebony, Jet, and other magazines, was born on this date in 1918. After a Supreme Court ruling, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher applied for admission to the University of Oklahoma Law School on this date in 1948. Fisher had previously been barred from the racially segregated school. UCLA names its social science building after Civil Right leader and alumnus Ralph Bunche in 1969. Clifford Alexander, Jr. was named as the first Black Secretary of the U.S. Army on this date in 1977. BIRTHDAYS Denise Boutte, actress Shawn Wayans, actor Antoine Fuqua, movie director Marsha Thomason, actress Javale McGee, NBA player
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