Birth of Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and most prolific female serial killer in history, in Nyírbátor. 1573: Francis ...

The National Museum of Korea announced Thursday it will launch a new exhibition this week on a Korean-born marathoner's ...

The torch relay--that staple of Olympic pageantry--first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany ...

Francis qualified for the 1936 Summer Olympics (held in Berlin) and finished fourth. Germany's Gerhard Stock bumped Francis off the podium with this final throw.

The world would come to know him in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Zamperini competed in the 5,000-meter run and finished eighth but was best remembered for what he did off the track.

Hart-Davis’s many other books included Behind the Scenes of a Newspaper (1964), a guide for children; a study of the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hitler’s Games, 1986); and studies of the naturalist ...