February 3 - "Black History Month": First Black TV Weathercaster in the US.

This happened 12 years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse. Dianne Elizabeth Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri on Dec. 28, 1938.  She was the daughter of Milton and Nettie Johnson and a descendant of a Civil War general’s slave mistress. There was an actual audition process for the weather girl job at KSD in St. Louis.  As a matter of fact, among the many competitors was a woman by the name of Mary Frann who was another St. Louis native, but it was also Mary Frann would go on to play Bob Newhart’s wife on his hit 1980s sitcom, “Newhart.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices