Historybook: President William Henry Harrison born (1773); RIP poet and playwright Paul Laurence Dunbar (1906); "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker born (1944); Record 73 million watch The Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (1964).

"It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness, a bird is singing to the Dawn."

- Excerpt from Representative American Negroes, an essay by Paul Laurence Dunbar