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1907 — Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after beating ‘Philadelphia’ Jack O’Brien on points in 20 rounds. 1915 — Regret, ridden by Joe Notter, becomes the ...
1967 — Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army. 1968 — Jim “Catfish” Hunter of the Oakland A’s pitches a perfect game, beating the Minnesota Twins 4-0. It is the ...
Courtesy Pate Growing up in Nigeria, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate had a childhood friend paralyzed from the waist-down due to polio. The boy couldn’t go to school because of his condition, and one day ...
The 74th death anniversary of the father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was observed with due solemnity on Sunday, with the pledges to follow his golden principles of “unity, faith ...
Muhammed Ali’s widow Lonnie & series star Jaalen Best. Prime Video series The Greatest, starring Jaalen Best as the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, started production a few weeks ago in Toronto. The ...
Muhammad Ali was caught by a thunderous left hook in a brutal war of attrition. During his fantastic career, ‘The Greatest’ was almost impossible to hit, with the best fighters on the planet missing ...
British boxing legend Frank Bruno fought Mike Tyson and has spoken about how he might have fared against the great Muhammad Ali. Bruno was one of the most popular and charismatic sports figures in the ...
Just before the Christmas festivities of 1824, an Egyptian pharaoh wrote to his royal counterpart Carlo Felice, duke of Savoy and king of Sardinia.
Weeks before Cyril Radcliffe drew the eponymous Line in August 1947 partitioning India and Pakistan, he had an earful from Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The founder of Pakistan told the chairman of the ...
The alligator’s ancestors were part of the group known as crocodyliformes, which coexisted with dinosaurs over 200 million years ago. While dinosaurs became extinct around 65 million years ago, ...