Charles Burrell is born in Toledo, Ohio.

Prominent Baltimore businessman Raymond Haysbert is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The National Football League (NFL) is formed, originally going by the name the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The League allows teams to sign black players, one of the few professional athletic leagues to do so.

The Negro National Baseball League is organized by Andrew "Rube" Foster and a group of black baseball club owners.

African American sorority Zeta Phi Beta is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Anne Spencer, famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance, sees her first poem "Before the Feast of Sushan" published in The Crisis. Her works will go on to be included in virtually every volume of black poetry published between 1920 and 1940.

Vivian Hewitt, owners of one of the finest collections of African American art in the world, is born in New Castle, Pennsylvania.

Car dealership owner Albert W. Johnson is born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Real estate entrepreneur and historian Dempsey Travis is born in Chicago, Illinois.

Later to become a welterweight and middleweight boxing champion, Sugar Ray Robinson is baptized Walker Smith in Detroit, Michigan. Robinson later became the first boxer to win a title five times.

Dr. Ebenezer Bush, the first African American to open a dental office in Long Beach, California, is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.

The first National Negro Baseball League game was played on this date. The Chicago Giants took on the Indianapolis ABC's.

Civic volunteer Dorothy Walker Runner is born in Nitro, West Virginia.

Legendary Chicago radio disk jockey Holmes "Daddy-O" Daylie is born in Covington, Tennessee.

Educator Frank Toland, Sr. is born.

Fighter pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen Joseph Gomer is born in Iowa Falls, Iowa.

Singer and pianist Hazel Scott was born on this date in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She was the first Black woman to host her own TV show, The Hazel Scott Show.

The Reverend Marcus Garvey Wood is born in Gloucester, Virginia.

Corporate Lawyer William T. Coleman is born.

California Superior Court Judge Hon. Vaino H. Spencer is born.

Retired business owner Sarann Knight Preddy is born on this date in Eufaula, Oklahoma. Preddy was the first African American woman to own a gaming license in the state of Nevada.

The New York Convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association draws twenty-five thousand blacks to a rally at Madison Square Garden. The UNIA, the brainchild of Jamaican immigrant Marcus Garvey, calls for racial pride and the recolonization of Africa by black Americans.

Social worker James H. Gilliam, Sr. is born on this date in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mamie Smith, a Vaudeville performer, records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records. It is believed to be the first blues record.

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified. The amdenment states that "no person is to be denied the right to vote in the United States or any state based upon sex." With the ratification, two states, Tennessee and Kentucky, allow for African American women to vote, though this does not last long.

Jazz great Charlie Parker was born on this date in Kansas City, Kansas.

Tuskegee Airman Charles Dryden is born.

Entrepreneur and restauranteur James Paschal is born on this date in McDuffie County, Georgia.

William Caesar Warfield, critically acclaimed vocalist, is born in West Helena, Arkansas.

Actor Charles Gilpin opened in Eugene O'Neill's play, Emperor Jones, on this date in New York.

Gynecologist & Community Leader Dr. Josephine English is born.

Radiologist and activist Dr. John W. Coleman is born in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Artist and graphic designer Thomas Miller is born in Bristol, Virginia.

Educator and Community Volunteer Georgia Dickens was born on this date in Atlanta, Georgia.

Blues pioneer Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues on this date. It was the first recording of a Blues song in music history. It was also Blues music's first hit record.