News from communities around Los Angeles
U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Olympic track and field athlete Jesse Owens with the Congressional Gold Medal. Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, single-handedly crushing Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy.
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Aug. 5, 1892 Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman gets a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, scout and spy during the Civil […]
June 22, 1990 Nelson Mandela speaks to the United Nations Special Committee in New York against apartheid, saying nothing has occurred in South Africa to […]
April 13, 1997 Orange County native Eldrick “Tiger” Woods shoots a record-breaking18-under-par, beating the second-place finisher by 12 strokes and becoming the youngest (age 21) […]