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1989 - New Orleans native Bobby 'I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday' Mitchell passed away at the age
of 53, on this day.
1968 - Christopher 'Black Happy' Goldston, traditional jazz drummer from New Orleans, Louisiana died
1956 - Daniel Mukes, traditional jazz snare drummer from New Orleans, Louisiana died
1930 -- The First Coffee Break March 17, 1930, when the managers of the Delta Steamship Company, then the
Mississippi Steamship Company,
summoned their 80 employees in the Hibernia Bank
Building in downtown New Orleans and initiated a daily 3:30 p.m. coffee
recess.
Company scouts had found the custom to be very well-received in Brazil and
adopted the idea for its New
Orleans office. The tradition started by the
shipping company spread like wildfire, and in a short time completely saturated
the entire metropolitan area, which only goes to prove good news travels fast.
Source: Buddy Stall
at
http://clarionherald.org/20020828/stall.htm
1806 Norbert Rillieux is Born
1863 -- Homer Plessy is Born
In 1892, Homer Plessy challenged a two-year-old street car law that separated passengers traveling on trains in Louisiana.
His action made him a plaintiff and defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Case of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896.
1884 - Alcide 'Yellow' Nunez was born on this day. - Early jazz clarinetist who played with 'The
Original Dixieland Jass Band'.
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