BLACK HISTORY MONTH LITTLE KNOWN FACTS

Fact #41
In 1992, 35-year-old athlete Evelyn Ashford became the oldest woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track-and-field.

Fact #42
In 2008, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.

Fact #43
Wilt Chamberlain was the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game during the 1961 season and the first player in the NBA to score 30,000 points.

Fact #44
Athlete Alice Coachman leapt to a height of 5-feet 6 1/8-inches in the 1948 high jump finals at the Summer Olympics. Her record stood for eight years afterward.

Fact #45
Jazz drummer William "Cozy" Cole broke Billboard records in 1958 with the single "Topsy," when it became the only drum solo to sell more than one million records.

Fact #46
In 2002, Maritza Correia became the first black female swimmer to break an American record, beating out Jenny Thompson, the most decorated American swimmer in Olympic history. She is also the first female black swimmer to make it onto the U.S. Olympic team.

Fact #47
Comedian Bill Cosby's 1984 sitcom, The Cosby Show, became the highest ranking sitcom for 5 years in a row. The program aired for eight years.

Fact #48
African-American speed skater Shani Davis is the only U.S. skater to ever make both the short and long track Junior World teams three years in a row.

Fact #49
Poet Rita Dove is the second African-American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, an award she received in 1987.

Fact #50
In 1974, collegiate track star Denis Fikes ran the mile in a time of 3:55.0, the fastest time by an African-American, the second fastest in the U.S. that year, and the 15th-fastest in the world. The record stood for more than a decade.

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