1874 Birthday of pioneering African-American performer-composer Bert Williams (1874-1922), who wrote music for Broadway's In Dahomey (1903) and Abyssinia (1906), but achieved even greater fame as a singer and dancer in five editions of the Ziegfeld Follies between 1910 and 1920.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on November 12, 2012