By 1960, when he was 18 ... and took a train home instead. The Olympics were out, he told Martin. No boat berths were available, and Clay would not fly. Martin sat him on a park bench, told ...

Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing ... into the national spotlight winning a gold medal in the 1960 Summer ...

1603: Scottish King James VI, son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, joining the English and Scottish crowns. On the same day, Tokugawa Ieyasu is ...

The photo of Ali standing over a knocked out Liston is one of the most iconic images in the history of boxing. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston / IMAGO / TT It was also Ali's last fight ...

That day, a man stood up and introduced himself, “I’m George Foreman, the Heavyweight Champion of the World.” There was a ...

1994 — Oksana Baiul of Ukraine wins the figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and Nancy Kerrigan, who was whacked on the knee 2½ months earlier, wins the silver.

A bipartisan effort is underway to posthumously award Muhammad ... medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics and securing the world heavyweight boxing title three times. However, Ali's influence extended ...

In the build up to his bout at Croke Park in July 1972, 'the Greatest' invited Bernadette Devlin, then an outspoken MP, for ...

The right-handed southpaw was the flagbearer for the British team at the 1960 Olympics in Rome and won bronze after a controversial semi-final defeat. McTaggart became European champion the ...

The Vatican said the pontiff also did some work on Sunday. The Vatican press office released a photo of Pope Francis on Sunday in a private chapel of Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he continues to ...