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On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton lay on her surfboard at Tunnels Beach on Kauai's North Shore, her left arm dangling...
On May 4, 1994, the city of São Paulo, Brazil, came to a standstill. Three million mourners filled the streets to say goodbye to Ayrton...
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. almost did not return to Memphis. His first visit in late March had ended in violence —...
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....
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for leading nonviolent protests against segregation. Placed 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 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 the morning of September 15, 1963, four young girls stood in the basement lounge of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, straightening their...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....
On the evening of September 30, 1962, James Meredith sat in a dormitory room at the University of Mississippi while a mob of over two...
On October 20, 1968, seventy-five runners launched into the Olympic marathon through the thin air of Mexico City. The altitude — over 7,300 feet —...
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 the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and took a seat in the first row...
In the winter of 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday to travel to Prague. What he found — refugee...
On September 2, 1960, in Rome's Stadio Olimpico, a young woman from Clarksville, Tennessee crouched in the starting blocks of the 100-meter final. Wilma Rudolph...
On April 19, 1960, Diane Nash stood on the steps of Nashville's courthouse and looked Mayor Ben West in the eye. The twenty-two-year-old Fisk University...
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 July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta's Georgia Dome, barely able to stand. Moments earlier,...
In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown walked his seven-year-old daughter Linda to Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and tried to enroll her. The...
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....
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 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 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 April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London City Hall....