The 1968 U.S. Open marked an important shift in the history of tennis as it was the first “Open” professional edition of the ...

The distinction of being the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature belongs to Sinclair Lewis. Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on 7 February 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

Books Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize for literature. She’s the first South Korean to do so. Nobel literature committee member Anna-Karin Palm said Han writes about “trauma, pain and loss ...

On Wednesday, World Athletics, the governing body for track and field events, announced that they have created a prize fund of $2.4 million that will be used to hand out $50,000 to the gold ...

An eight-year-old British schoolgirl “phenomenon” won the women’s first prize in the Blitz category at this year’s European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Zagreb, Croatia.