Showing posts with label berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label berlin. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

August 12, 1936: The Biggest Baseball Crowd -- In Berlin?

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Bill Sayles. The "B" stands for "Brooklyn," not "Berlin." August 12, 1936, 90 years ago: What was definitely ...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

August 9, 1936: His Name Was Sohn Kee-chung

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August 9, 1936, 90 years ago:   Legendary journalist Lincoln Steffens died in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. He was 70 years old. Meanwhile,...
Wednesday, August 5, 2026

August 5, 1936: The Helene Mayer Story

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August 5, 1936, 90 years ago: Helene Mayer wins a Silver Medal at the Olympics. Ordinarily, an athlete finishing 2nd in an Olympic event wo...
Monday, August 3, 2026

August 3, 1936: Jesse Owens Beats Aryan Supremacy

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August 3, 1936, 90 years ago: Nazi Germany's myth of racial supremacy is shattered by a black American. The International Olympic Commi...
Thursday, July 9, 2026

July 9, 2006: Zinedine Zidane's "Coup de Boule"

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July 9, 2006, 20 years ago: The World Cup Final is held at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. ABC broadcasts it in America. France play Italy. B...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

May 8, 1945: V-E Day

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I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. It was quite a week: April 28, 1945: Former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was executed. ...
Monday, April 28, 2025

April 28-30, 1945: The Ends of the Dictators

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April 28, 1945, 80 years ago:  Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943, is captured by Communist partisans and exe...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Zinedine Zidane for France Losing the 2006 World Cup

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This Sunday, France will play Portugal in the Final of Euro 2016, at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris. As France is th...