JANUARY 12
1959:With $800 borrowed from his family, Berry Gordy Jr. starts his first label, Tamla Records, in Detroit. It is the predecessor of the influential rhythm and blues icon Motown Record Corporation.
1926: Under the original name Sam 'n' Henry, the radio program that will be transformed into the long-running situation comedy Amos 'n' Andy
debuts on Chicago radio station WGN, starring vaudeville performers Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as African Americans from the Deep South looking for a better life in the Windy City.
1932: Hattie W. Caraway wins a special election to serve out the remainder of her late husband's term in the U.S. Senate, becoming the first elected female senator. Representing the state of Arkansas, Caraway will win a full term in November 1932 and serve in the Senate until January 1945.
1926: Under the original name Sam 'n' Henry, the radio program that will be transformed into the long-running situation comedy Amos 'n' Andy
debuts on Chicago radio station WGN, starring vaudeville performers Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as African Americans from the Deep South looking for a better life in the Windy City.
1932: Hattie W. Caraway wins a special election to serve out the remainder of her late husband's term in the U.S. Senate, becoming the first elected female senator. Representing the state of Arkansas, Caraway will win a full term in November 1932 and serve in the Senate until January 1945.
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