January 8, 1836 - Fannie M. Jackson was born (1836 - 1913).
She was a pioneer and educator, and the first Black woman college graduate in the US.
January 8, 1947 - David Bowie is born David Jones in London. The enfante terrible of punk, Bowie loved to shock his audiences. Among the songs he wrote was Queen Bitch about a a young dude who "dresses like a queen but...can kick like a mule." In 1976 he confided in a playboy interview that he is bi.
January 8, 1997 - Texaco Inc. takes action against David Keough, one of the executives surreptitiously caught on tape making racist jokes and admitting to destroying potentially incriminating documents. An assistant treasurer at Texaco?s finance insurance subsidiary, Keough was fired after officials for the oil giant received the findings of independent counsel Michael Armstrong?s investigation into the tape scandal. Keough?s firing was just the latest chapter in Texaco?s tape saga: earlier in 1996, the discovery of the tape had helped a group of 1,400 employees win a $175 million settlement in a racial discrimination suit brought against the company. That same year Richard Lundwall and Robert Ulrich, two of the other executives captured on the tape, stood trial on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice; Ludwall and Ulrich were acquitted of those charges in 1998
She was a pioneer and educator, and the first Black woman college graduate in the US.
January 8, 1947 - David Bowie is born David Jones in London. The enfante terrible of punk, Bowie loved to shock his audiences. Among the songs he wrote was Queen Bitch about a a young dude who "dresses like a queen but...can kick like a mule." In 1976 he confided in a playboy interview that he is bi.
January 8, 1997 - Texaco Inc. takes action against David Keough, one of the executives surreptitiously caught on tape making racist jokes and admitting to destroying potentially incriminating documents. An assistant treasurer at Texaco?s finance insurance subsidiary, Keough was fired after officials for the oil giant received the findings of independent counsel Michael Armstrong?s investigation into the tape scandal. Keough?s firing was just the latest chapter in Texaco?s tape saga: earlier in 1996, the discovery of the tape had helped a group of 1,400 employees win a $175 million settlement in a racial discrimination suit brought against the company. That same year Richard Lundwall and Robert Ulrich, two of the other executives captured on the tape, stood trial on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice; Ludwall and Ulrich were acquitted of those charges in 1998
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