ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1968, the famed 1968 Olympics Black Power salute took place at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. Athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medallists in the 200m, stood with their heads bowed and a black-gloved hand raised as the American National Anthem played during the victory ceremony. Also on this day, Mae Jemison was born in 1956. Jemison is an American physician and the first African American woman to become an astronaut. In 1992 she spent more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour. Also, rapper Eminem was born on this day in 1972. In Enterprise, readers got the news on this day last year that Etisalat Misr and Vodafone Egypt gave in and signed agreements to acquire 4G licenses.
On this day: 17 October