On January 7, , the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, formally charged with lying under oath and obstructing justice, begins in the Senate. As instructed in Article 1 of the U. The two men nearly crashed into the Channel along the way, however, as their balloon was weighed Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
Congress sets January 7, as the date by which states are required to choose electors for the country's first-ever presidential election. A month later, on February 4, George Washington was elected president by state electors and sworn into office on April 30, On January 7, , the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team travels 48 miles west from Chicago to play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. The Globetrotters were the creation of Abe Saperstein of Chicago, who took over coaching duties for a team of African American players The confessed Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer is released from prison on parole after serving 18 years.
One of the ragged legions of gold and silver prospectors who combed the Rocky Mountains searching for fortune in the s, Alferd Packer also supplemented his meager income A massive mine explosion leaves nearly dead in Krebs, Oklahoma, on January 7, Southeastern Oklahoma was a prime location for mining at Six-year-old Suzanne Degnan is kidnapped from her home in an affluent Chicago neighborhood.
Just six days after the fall of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba, U. Census records suggest is the more accurate date. Zora Neale Hurston moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, while she was very young. She grew up in Eatonville, in the first incorporated all-Black town in the United States. Her mother was Lucy Ann Potts Hurston, who had taught school before marrying, and after marriage, had eight children with her husband, the Reverend John Hurston, a Baptist minister, who also served three times as mayor of Eatonville.
Lucy Hurston died when Zora was about thirteen again, her varied birth dates make this somewhat uncertain. Her father remarried, and the siblings were separated, moving in with different relatives. Hurston went to Baltimore, Maryland, to attend Morgan Academy now a university.
After graduation, she attended Howard University while working as a manicurist, and she also began to write, publishing a story in the magazine of the school's literary society. In she went to New York City, drawn by the circle of creative Black artists now known as the Harlem Renaissance , and she began writing fiction.
With the help of Boaz and Elsie Clews Parsons, Hurston was able to win a six-month grant she used to collect African American folklore. Hurst, a Jewish woman, later—in —wrote Imitation of Life , about a Black woman passing as white. Claudette Colbert starred in the film version of the story. After college, when Hurston began working as an ethnologist, she combined fiction and her knowledge of culture.
Rufus Osgood Mason financially supported Hurston's ethnology work on the condition that Hurston did not publish anything. It was only after Hurston cut herself off from Mrs. Mason's financial patronage that she began publishing her poetry and fiction. Zora Neale Hurston's best-known work was published in Their Eyes Were Watching God , a novel which was controversial because it didn't fit easily into stereotypes of Black stories. She was criticized within the Black community for taking funds from whites to support her writing; she wrote about themes "too Black" to appeal to many whites.
Hurston's popularity waned. Her last book was published in She worked for a time on the faculty of North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham, she wrote for Warner Brothers motion pictures, and for some time worked on staff at the Library of Congress.
In , she was accused of molesting a year-old boy. January Writes and stages a theatrical revue called The Great Day , first performed on January 10 on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre; works with the creative literature department of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, to produce a concert program of Negro music. January Begins to study for a Ph.
D in anthropology at Columbia University on a fellowship from the Rosenwald Foundation. April - September In Jamaica. May Returns to Haiti on a renewed Guggenheim. November Moses, Man of the Mountain published. February Files for divorce from Price, though the two are reconciled briefly. Summer Makes a folklore-collecting trip to South Carolina.
October January Works as a story consultant at Paramount Pictures. November Dust Tracks on a Road published. November Divorce from Price granted. Doctor ; it is rejected by Lippincott.
October Seraph on the Suwanee published. Winter - Moves to Belle Glade, Florida. Early Suffers a stroke. October Forced to enter the St. Lucie County Welfare Home. January 28, Dies in the St.
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