But on Sept. 5, 1972 at the Munich Olympics, history would not wait.
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Music: A Man for All Reasons
“I have never been much taller than my cello,” Pablo Casals once remarked. He spoke more modestly than he knew
Spider-Man, Finally: On Scene at Opening Night
At least four performers were injured doing the technically demanding stunts.
Transplants: Liver Record
Julie Cherie Rodriguez died in her sleep last week at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver. Only 2 years old, Julie made surgical history by living for a record 13 months after a liver transplant, the most difficult organ transfer yet attempted
Margaret Sanger
The movement she started will grow to be, a hundred years from now, the most influential of all time,” predicted futurist and historian H.G. Wells in 1931
The 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s moon speech to Congress
Even the most iconic moments in American history can start to seem a little shopworn after a while. The flag-raising at Iwo Jima
Those Guys Have All the Fun: An Unauthorized, Uninhibited History of ESPN
I don’t watch Saturday Night Live. I don’t own a television, and I do own a 10-month-old baby, so you do the math.
A Brief History of the Flag Lapel Pin
Are you currently wearing a flag pin? Yes?
Religion: Council of Renewal
A fortnight hence in the Vatican, 2,600 bishops of the Roman Catholic Church will meet in a gathering so rare that only 20 others like it have been convened in the 20 centuries of Christian history. The purpose of the Second Vatican Council is what His Holiness Pope John XXIII, who has the Catholic prelate's traditional wariness of words that suggest drastic change, calls an aggiornamento—a modernization.
Russia-Poland Tensions Rise with Report on Kaczynski Crash
It looked at first like the chance of a lifetime, if not a millennium. On April 10, when Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his entourage died in a plane crash in eastern Russia, the flood of grief from the Russian people struck such a chord in Poland that the long history of war, betrayal and oppression between the countries finally seemed to turn a corner.