Good morning. Today is the 44th day of the year. On this day in 1899, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that Booker T. Washington and several other African-American leaders and clergymen spoke at Plymouth Church on the occasion of Lincoln’s Birthday. The meeting opened with a rendition of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” by the Hampton Institute Quartet. The main topic was not the condition of African-Americans in the U.S., but Christian missionary work in Africa.

Well-known people who were born today include U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), actress Stockard Channing (“Six Degrees of Separation,” “The House of Blue Leaves”), singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel (“Sledgehammer”), actress Kim Novak (“Bell, Book and Candle,” “Vertigo”), TV talk show host Jerry Springer and singer-actor Peter Tork of the Monkees.

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