Jackie Robinson wasn’t the only Black baseball player to suit up in the big leagues in 1947. After he broke the color line and became the first Black baseball player to play in the American major leagues during the 20th century, four other players of color soon followed in his…
In the 1920s, beauticians specialized in hair, since nails and skin were taken care of in the home. The first example of a beautician was a lady by the name of Martha Matilda Harper. Martha was an innovator, inventor, and businesswoman that paved the way in the beauty industry. Cosmetology…
With Eddie Stanky entrenched at second base for the Dodgers, Robinson played his initial major league season as a first baseman. Robinson made his debut in a Dodgers uniform wearing number 42 on April 11, 1947, in a preseason exhibition game against the New York Yankees at Ebbets Field with…
Starting with the salary – the pay of the national cricket coach can go up to 10 crores per annum. This is what Rahul Dravid is reported to be paid for his gig, and it is the biggest remuneration anyone has received for the job. Duncan Fletcher became the first…
John Adams is referred to as the first “ambassador”. He is also referred to as the first “minister plenipotentiary”. Who was the first American ambassador? The rank of Ambassador was first used by the United States in 1893. Thomas F. Bayard was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain on March 30,…
Julius Caesar, the First Modern-Dictator in History. Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. Ruled from 1952 to 1984. … Habib Bourguiba. Ruled from 1957 to 1987. … Deng Xiaoping. Ruled from 1980 to 1997. … Todor Zhivkov. Ruled from 1956 to 1989. … António de Oliveira Salazar. Ruled from 1932 to 1968. … Mohammad…
The show featured the first bachelor, Alex Michel, courting 25 women. The season premiered on March 25, 2002, and concluded on April 25, 2002 in which 23-year-old event planner Amanda Marsh was named the winner and Michel chose not to propose her. They continued to date and eventually broke off…
The fertility specialists Patrick Steptoe and Bob Edwards became the first to successfully carry out IVF by extracting an egg, impregnating it with sperm and planting the resulting embryo back into the mother ^ Schulman, Joseph D. (2010). Robert G. Edwards – A Personal Viewpoint. By 1980, the first American…
Modern composers also were consciously trying to invent something new and very different. But the composers of the Romantic era did not reject Classical music. In fact, they were consciously emulating the composers they considered to be the great classicists: Haydn, Mozart, and particularly Beethoven. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Ludwig…
Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was “the first Black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women. A History of Beauticians. At that time, most professional hairstylists were black women who served wealthy white clients. Marjorie Joyner, a…