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He died of tuberculosis on September 20, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts and is buried there.
The Cosby Show premieres on NBC.
First Negro Convention of Free Men agree to start their boycott on slave-produced goods, 1830
Maryland enacted first anti-amalgamation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and Black men. Other colonies passed similar laws: Virginia, 1691; Massachusetts 1705; North Carolina, 1715; South Carolina, 1717; Delaware, 1721; Pennsylvania, 1725.
Birthday of pianist Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Governor Barnett personally denied James H. Meredith admission to the University of Mississippi.
William A. Leidesdorf elected to San Francisco town council receiving the third highest vote. Leidesdorf, who was one of the first Black elected officials, became the town treasurer in 1848.
Alfre Woodard wins an Emmy for outstanding guest performance in the dramatic series L.A. Law. It is her second Emmy award, her first having been for a supporting role in Hill Street Blues in 1984.
Martin Luther King Jr. stabbed in chest by a deranged Black woman while he was autographing books in a Harlem department store. Woman was placed under mental observation.
