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1912 Fanny Durack, Australia 1:22.20 1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey, United States 1:13.60 1924…Television Hall of Fame
Each year, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducts up to seven people or programs to the Television Hall of Fame. Here are the past…Lloyd Bentsen 2006 Deaths
Lloyd BentsenAge: 85 pro-business politician who served in both houses of Congress, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and as Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton. As…Freedom Riders
(Encyclopedia) Freedom Riders, American civil-rights demonstrators who engaged (1961) in nonviolent protests against segregation of public interstate buses and terminals in the South. From the 1940s…Gordy, Berry, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Gordy, Berry, Jr., 1929–, African-American music-industry executive, b. Detroit. After stints in the army and as a professional boxer,…econometrics
(Encyclopedia) econometrics, technique of economic analysis that expresses economic theory in terms of mathematical relationships and then tests it empirically through statistical research.…King, B. B.
(Encyclopedia) King, B. B., 1925–2015, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. near Indianola, Miss., as Riley B. King. He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, began playing the…King, Carole
(Encyclopedia) King, Carole, 1942-, American singer-songwriter, b. New York, N.Y., as Carole Joan Klein. King enjoyed two separate careers; in the…Ellington, Duke
(Encyclopedia) Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy Ellington), 1899–1974, American jazz musician and composer, b. Washington, D.C. Ellington made his first professional appearance as a jazz pianist in…Poitier, Sir Sidney
(Encyclopedia) Poitier, Sir Sidney, 1927–2022, Bahamian-American actor, b. Miami, raised in the Bahamas, returned to the United States at 14. Poitier…Trending
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