October 18, 1958 Thomas Hearns, the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions, was born in Memphis, Tennessee but raised in Detroit, Michigan. Hearns had an amateur boxing record of 155 wins and 8 losses and won the 1977 National Golden Gloves Light Welterweight Championship. That same year, he turned professional […]
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October 18th in African American History – Wynton Learson Marsalis
October 18, 1961 Wynton Learson Marsalis, jazz and classical music trumpeter and composer, was born in New Orleans, Lousiana. At the age of 8, Marsalis was performing traditional New Orleans music in the church band and at 14 he was invited to perform with the New Orleans Philharmonic. While in high school, he was also […]