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2 days ago · William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844), writer and collector. He inherited about 3,000 enslaved people from his father. [28] Benjamin Belcher (1743–1802), Nova Scotia politician and militia leader, he enslaved at least 7 people. [29] Zabeau Bellanton ( fl. 1782 ), free woman of color and slave trader in Saint Domingue.
4 days ago · “Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.,” U.S. Military Academy Library Exhibits, accessed May 27, 2024, https://usmalibrary.omeka.net/items/show/528.
2 days ago · Born. William Howard Brett (American librarian) – 1846. Louis Blériot (first man to fly across the English Channel) – 1872. Benjamin Oliver Davis (first African American general in U.S. Army) – 1877. Walter Francis White (author) – 1893. William Wyler (film director) – 1902. Estée Lauder (cosmetics executive) – 1908.
May 3, 2024 · Benjamin O. Davis Sr was an African-American U. S. Army general. Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.was born in the city of Washington, D. C. When he joined the army; he claimed that he was born on July 1, 1877. However, biographer Marvin Fletcher later found a document which stated that he was born in May 1880.
5 days ago · After giving birth to her first child, Benjamin, on September 27, 1949, de Havilland took time off from making films to be with her infant son. She turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, later explaining that becoming a mother was a "transforming experience" and that she could not relate to the character.
May 7, 2024 · Bill Nye the Science Guy, journalist Connie Chung, and the first director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, were also born in Washington, D.C. 84. Benjamin Oliver Davis of Washington, D.C., became the first African American general in the US Army.
May 14, 2024 · Davis was appointed first to the 5th U.S. Infantry in Texas, as Brevet 2nd Lieutenant, but transferred to the 1st U.S. Dragoons on March 3, 1855. He served from New Mexico to California, including a wound received on June 27, 1857, on the Gila River Expedition in a clash with Apache Indians. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant of Company K on ...
