After a strong rookie year in 1976 that saw Lemon make the Topps Rookie All-Star Team, he exploded in 1977. At just age 22, ...
1951: Dorothy Mae Stevens, a 23-year-old whose frozen body had been found on Feb. 7, 1951, lying in a gangway at 3108 S. Vernon Ave., told the Tribune from her bed at Michael Reese hospital that she ...
2016 — Lindsey Vonn clinches a record 20th World Cup crystal globe title and surpasses Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. It’s Vonn’s record eighth downhill title. Stenmark won 19 globes between 1975 and ...
If World War I was allegedly fought “to make the world safe for democracy,” World War II seems to have made the world “safe” ...
Mikaela Shiffrin's coach, Karin Harjo, became the first woman to set a course for an Olympic Alpine skiing event, designing ...
Chocolate has played a pivotal role in American milestones, from the Revolutionary War to the Apollo missions.
Today in Boston Celtics history, Justin Ray "J.R." Giddens came into this world in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1985.
Cortina-d’Ampezzo, Italy, has changed a lot since 1941, when Italy’s Benito Mussolini held his own world ‘Games’ ...
Two Georgia museums are getting national attention, after being ranked in USA Today 10Best lists. Here's what makes them ...
President Joe Biden signed a proclamation designating the site of the 1908 Springfield race riot, one of the most egregious outbreaks of race-related violence in U.S. history, as a national monument.