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In June 1966, Pauli Murray sat among delegates at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C., frustrated by...
In 1941, as German bombs fell on London, a former atheist sat before a BBC microphone at Broadcasting House and made a startling argument. C.S....
On May 8, 1980, the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly declared in Geneva what no generation before had dared believe: smallpox — a disease that killed...
On the morning of February 28, 1953, Francis Crick strode into the Eagle pub near Cambridge University and declared to the lunchtime crowd that he...
In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall faced a wall of medical orthodoxy. He and his colleague Dr. Robin Warren at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia...
On April 14, 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced that thirteen years of painstaking work had reached its goal: scientists had successfully mapped...
On October 7, 1950, the Vatican officially recognized a tiny new religious order in Calcutta, India. Its founder, a 40-year-old Albanian nun named Agnes Bojaxhiu...
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 put weight on...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. State troopers...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis knelt in prayer, then stood and walked straight into suffering. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,...
On March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson walked toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, alongside six hundred marchers demanding their right to vote....
On July 18, 1976, in the Montreal Forum, fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci of Romania mounted the uneven bars and did something the sport had never seen....
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle shot outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed to...
On the evening of April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before a crowd at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. He had come to...
Herb Brooks made a decision that baffled hockey experts. When selecting the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, he passed over several more skilled players in favor...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred men and women lined up two abreast at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They carried no weapons....
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. No...
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stepped onto the Olympic medal podium in Mexico City wearing only black socks — no shoes....
On February 22, 1980, inside the Olympic Fieldhouse in Lake Placid, New York, twenty young Americans lined up against the most dominant hockey team the...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat...
On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon to face Jimmy Connors, the defending champion and overwhelming favorite. Connors was younger,...
On October 1, 1962, James Meredith walked into the registrar's office at the University of Mississippi and enrolled as its first Black student. The night...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had...