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On September 17, 1968 Diahann Carroll would change the face of television as nurse Julia. It was the first television series to depict an African-American woman in a non-stereotypical role. After the show ended in 1971, Caroll would go on to star in many other movies and TV series notably ‘Dynasty’ as Dominique Deveraux and Whitley Gilbert’s mother in ‘A Different World.’

America's favorite witch's twitch was actually a nervous habit that Elizabeth Montgomery wasn't even aware of until her husband, Bewitched producer, William Asher pointed it out to her. Thus the bewitching twitch was born.

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Before she was one-third of the hosts & the first crowned on Univisión’s Nuestra Belleza Latina, Alejandra Espinoza worked at the golden arches.

In 1961, Jacqueline Kennedy left her indelible mark on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Kennedy helped found the White House Historical Association to "enhance the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the White House."

Before she was Oprah the talk-show host with her OWN network, she was a reporter. —— “Back when I was a reporter, I’d say ‘m’am I know your house just burned down but can you take the rollers out your hair?’” —Oprah Winfrey on how she cared about the image of African-Americans on TV even as reporter. (This statement made me laugh this AM so I had to share.)

The first perfume to feature a designer’s name was Chanel No. 5 by the one and only Coco Chanel.

History doesn’t have to be ancient it’s made daily. Rihanna was the first female solo singer to have five number one singles in five consecutive years in the UK. That’s not the Barbadian beauty’s only feat. She was was the first woman to break the 2 million view mark on VEVO.

She delivered the mail sitting on the coach smoking a big cigar, sometimes having to fight her way through blizzards and fend off attacks by wolves. She was past seventy when she decided to retire from the mail delivery job and open a laundry…Fields didn’t lose her spirit. Legend has it that she once punched a man and knocked him onto the street because he neglected to pay his laundry bill.

Not only was Shirley Chisholm “unbought & unbossed,” she was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and ran for president in 1972.

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In September of 1904 he signed with the Shelby Blues in Ohio. His love of football began at an early age. In high school, he organized the first football team at Wooster High and was elected captain.

(originally posted 2/6/13 )

Rashād is best known for playing another matriarch Clair Huxtable in the 1984-1992 sitcom The Cosby Show on NBC.