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In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a controversial decision. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, he pointed the Hubble...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights. They made it only to...
On the morning of May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister nearly stayed home. Wind gusted across the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England, and the twenty-five-year-old...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis tucked an apple, a toothbrush, and two books into his backpack before walking to the Edmund Pettus Bridge...
On September 20, 1973, twenty-nine-year-old Billie Jean King walked into the Houston Astrodome to face fifty-five-year-old Bobby Riggs before 30,472 spectators and an estimated 90...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and took a seat in the first row...
On a July night in 1958, Sheriff Garnett Brooks and two deputies burst into a bedroom in Caroline County, Virginia, flashlights cutting through the darkness....
In September 1950, Oliver Brown took his seven-year-old daughter Linda by the hand and walked seven blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to Sumner...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
On November 19, 1969, over 65,000 fans packed Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, buzzing with anticipation. Edson Arantes do Nascimento — known to the...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., under a late-summer sky. They had marched for jobs...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He had waited years for this moment,...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. She...
On March 21, 1965, approximately 3,200 marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, walking toward the state capitol in Montgomery. They...
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu gaveled open the first hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in East London's city hall. The...
On November 19, 1969, Edson Arantes do Nascimento — known to the world as Pelé — stepped to the penalty spot at Maracanã Stadium in...
On November 19, 1969, Pelé stepped to the penalty spot at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Over 65,000 fans held their breath. The striker...
On October 16, 1969, fifty-seven thousand fans packed Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, to witness something the sports world had declared impossible. The New...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano shuffled to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The man who had sprinted across the court ten years earlier,...
On August 28, 1963, a quarter million people stood shoulder to shoulder along the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., their faces turned toward the Lincoln...
On October 16, 1969, fans at Shea Stadium in New York City rushed the field in delirious celebration. The New York Mets — a franchise...
In May 1952, in a basement laboratory at King's College London, Rosalind Franklin aimed a beam of X-rays at a strand of DNA and waited....
On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott stood on the mound at Yankee Stadium and did what only a handful of pitchers in baseball history have...
The Georgia Dome roared with 32,000 voices on July 23, 1996, as eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta....