1968 Mexico City Olympic Games- 1500 Meters- Jim Ryun vs Kip Keino
The most anticipated track and field event at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games was the match up in the 1500 meters with Jim Ryun taking on Kip Keino of […]
1968 Olympic Games, Mexico City, Mexico
The 1968 Games of the XIX Olympiad were hosted by Mexico City. It marked the first time that the games were held in a Latin American country. Like the 1956 […]
1964 Tokyo Olympic Games- Abebe Bikila – The Barefoot Runner- 2 Time Marathon Champion
My favourite Olympian ever is Emil Zatopek the great distance runner who won 1 gold in 1948 and swept the long distance races in the 1952 games. My second favourite […]
Judge Landis Bans The Eight Black Sox From Baseball For Life
On this day in 1921 the Commissiner of Baseball- Kenesaw Mountain Landis {who looked like what you would think a baseball commissioner should look like} bans the eight Chicago Black […]
1964 Olympic Games – Tokyo, Japan
The 1964 Olympic Games were held in Tokyo, Japan from 10 October to 24 October. This marked the first games to be held in Asia. Tokyo was originally slated to […]
Air Traffic Controllers Walk Off Job- This Day 1981
On this day in 1981, tired of working long hours on obsolete equipment, 13,ooo members of the United States Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. […]
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