The 2008 Olympics in Beijing will include 302 different events will nine of them being new additions. These new events will include BMX racing in the cycling discipline, a women's 3000m…
David Livingstone was 27 years old when he sailed from Scotland to South Africa as a Christian missionary in 1840. He spent much of the next 33 years traveling in the African interior, eventually…
Born: Jan. 25, 1951Track & Field All-America distance runner at Oregon; first athlete to win same event at NCAA championships 4 straight years (5,000 meters from 1970-73); finished 4th in 5,000…
Born: Mar. 3, 1962Track & Field 2-time world champion in both long jump (1987,91) and heptathlon (1987,93); won heptathlon gold medals at 1988 and '92 Olympics and LJ gold at '88 Games; also…
Born: 1916Birthplace: Chicago, Ill Method and means of magnetic recording—Camras's inventions are used in modern magnetic tape and wire recorders, including high frequency bias, improved recording…
Born: 1902Birthplace: Hannibal, Mo. Radio apparatus—automobile—Lear's design of a practical car radio launched the Motorola Company. He then turned to navigational aids for aircraft and formed Lear…
Secretariat was the Muhammad Ali of racehorses, a brash and charismatic champ who was the breakaway winner of the 1973 Triple Crown. In 21 career starts, the big chestnut stallion finished first 16…
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Cold War on the Courts U.S. and Russian basketball teams play the most controversial game in Olympic history by Gerry Brown Russian Aleksander Belov scores the controversial winning basket…
