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…
Born: Nov. 25, 1903Track & Field won the long jump at the 1924 Olympics, becoming the first Black athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event; set the long jump world record in…
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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…
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: 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…
(Encyclopedia) Lovell, Sir Bernard (Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell), 1913–2012, English radio astronomer, b. Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England, Ph.D. Univ. of Bristol, 1936. He was a member…
