James Connolly (athlete) - James Connolly (athlete) James Brendan Bennet Connolly (October 28, 1868 - January 20, 1957 in New York) was an American athlete and writer. He was the first modern Olympic champion. Connolly in Athens 1896. James Connolly was born to Irish-Catholic parents, one of twelve children, in South Boston. Growing up at a time when the parks and playground movement in Boston was slowly developing, Connolly joined other boys in the streets and vacant lots to run, jump, and play ball. After completing his education first at Notre Dame Academy and then at the Mather and Lawrence grammar schools of his district, Connolly had spent time as a clerk with an insurance company in Boston and later with the U.S. Corps of Engineers in Savannah, Georgia. His.
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Ellery Clark - Massachusetts; died February 17, 1949) was an American athlete. He was the first modern Olympic champion in high jump and long jump. Ellery Clark Ellery Clark is the only person to win the Olympic high jump and long jump. Clark did it in 1896, at the first modern Olympics in Athens. A Harvard student, he was given a leave of absence to compete because of his high grades - in contrast to another gold medal winner from Harvard, James Connolly. Clark was one of the top all-around athletes from 1893 to 1912. In the long jump, he had used his hat to mark his runway. Twice the judge (in fact King Constantine of Greece) had removed the hat, saying this was a practice of professionals. Only at the third attempt (and.
Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Pole vault, Men 9 Long jump, Men 10 Triple jump, Men 11 Shot put, Men 12 Discus throw, Men 100 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Tom Burke (USA) 2 Fritz Hofmann (GER) 3 Alajos Szokolyi (HUN) 3 & Francis Lane (USA) 400 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Tom Burke (USA) 2 Herbert Jamison (USA) 3 Charles Gmelin (GBR) 800 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Teddy Flack (AUS) 2 Nándor Dáni (HUN) 3 Dimitrios Golemis (GRE) 1500 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Teddy Flack (AUS) 2 Arthur Blake (USA) 3 Albin Lermusiaux (FRA) Marathon, Men Pos Athlete 1 Spiridon Louis (GRE) 2 Kharilaos Vasilakos (GRE) 3 Gyula Kellner (HUN) 110 m hurdles, Men Pos Athlete 1 Tom Curtis (USA) 2 Grantley Goulding (GBR) No other athletes started in the final. High jump,.
Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics - High Jump, Men 19 Standing Long Jump, Men 20 Standing Triple Jump, Men 21 Shot Put, Men 22 Discus Throw, Men 23 Hammer Throw, Men 60 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Alvin Kraenzlein (USA) 2 Walter Tewksbury (USA) 3 Stanley Rowley (AUS) 100 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Frank Jarvis (USA) 2 Walter Tewksbury (USA) 3 Stanley Rowley (AUS) 200 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Walter Tewksbury (USA) 2 Norman Pritchard (IND) 3 Stanley Rowley (AUS) 400 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Maxwell Long (USA) 2 William Holland (USA) 3 Ernst Schultz (DEN) 800 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Alfred Tysoe (GBR) 2 John Cregan (USA) 3 David Hall (USA) 1500 m, Men Pos Athlete 1 Charles Bennett (GBR) 2 Henri Deloge (FRA) 3 John Bray (USA) Marathon, Men Pos Athlete.
Triple jump - known as "hop, step and jump", which describes the actions a competitor takes. The athlete runs down a runway until he reaches a designed mark from which the jump is measured. The first landing after that mark has to be done with the same foot as that which the athlete set off before or on the mark. The next phase is a step (so with the other foot), and finally a jump, landing in a sand box, like in the long jump. The triple jump has been included in the Olympic Games since its first celebration in 1896; in fact, the first Olympic Champion, James Connolly was a triple jumper. In 1996, a triple jump event for women was held at the Olympics as well, after having been included in the.
Robert Garrett - County, Maryland; died April 25, 1951) was an American athlete. He was the first Olympic champion in discus throw and shot put. Garrett in Athens 1896. Robert Garrett was from wealthy family and studied in Princeton University. Robert Garrett excelled in track and field athletics as an undergraduate. He was captain of the Princeton track team in both his junior and senior years. Garrett was primarily a shot-putter, though he also competed in the jumping events. When he decided to compete in the first modern Olympics in 1896, Professor William Milligan Sloane suggested he should also try the discus. They consulted classical authorities to develop a drawing and Garrett hired a blacksmith to make a discus. It weighed nearly thirty pounds and was impossible to throw it any distance, so he.
Olympic medalists in athletics (men) - (USA) William Hogenson (USA) 1906 Archie Hahn (USA) Fay Moulton (USA) Nigel Barker (AUS) 1908 Reggie Walker (RSA) James Rector (USA) Robert Kerr (CAN) 1912 Ralph Craig (USA) Alvah Meyer (USA) Don Lippincott (USA) 1920 Charlie Paddock (USA) Morris Kirksey (USA) Harry Edward (GBR) 1924 Harold Abrahams (GBR) Jackson Scholz (USA) Arthur Porritt (NZL) 1928 Percy Williams (CAN) Jack London (GBR) Georg Lammers (GER) 1932 Eddie Tolan (USA) Ralph Metcalfe (USA) Arthur Jonath (GER) 1936 Jesse Owens (USA) Ralph Metcalfe (USA) Tinus Osendarp (NED) 1948 Harrison Dillard (USA) Norwood Ewell (USA) Lloyd LaBeach (PAN) 1952 Lindy Remigino (USA) Herb McKenley (JAM) Emmanuel McDonald Bailey (GBR) 1956 Bobby Joe Morrow (USA) Thane Baker (USA) Hector Hogan (AUS) 1960 Armin Hary (GER) Davide Sime (USA) Peter Radford (GBR) 1964 Bob Hayes (USA) Enrique.
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James Connolly (nationalist) - James Connolly (nationalist) James Connolly (1868 - 1916) - Irish nationalist and Labour leader. Connolly was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to Irish emigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but despite this start to life he would become one of the leading left-wing theorists of his day. He is believed to have joined the British Army at the age of 14, and was stationed in Dublin where he would meet his wife. By 1896 he had left the army and established his Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP). While active as a Socialist in britain Connolly was among the founders of the Socialist Labour Party which split from the British Socialist Party in 1903. He was executed by the British for.
Maureen Connolly - Maureen Connolly Maureen Catherine Connolly (Little Mo) was a professional tennis player born on September 17, 1934, in San Diego, California, United States. As a child, an athletic Maureen Connolly loved horseback riding but her mother was unable to pay the cost for riding lessons and as such she took up the game of tennis. A natural, with tremendous power and accuracy from the baseline, at age 14 she won 56 straight matches and the following year became the youngest ever to win the United States national championship for girls eighteen and under. In 1951 she entered her first US Open at Forest Hills, New York and in the finals, the sixteen-year-old Connolly defeated Shirley Fry, again becoming the youngest ever to win America's most prestigious tennis.
LeBron James - LeBron James LeBron James (born December 30, 1984, in Akron, Ohio) is a much-hyped basketball player. Even before his NBA debut, he has been lauded as the next big thing in hoops. James captured the attention of the nation with his incredible exploits in high school. Following a solid freshman year on a Division III state championship team, he put together an exceptional sophomore campaign in 2000-01 where he averaged 25 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, and 4 steals, in addition to another state championship. He was named Ohio's "Mr. Basketball" and USA Today selected him for the All-USA First Team, the first sophomore to be honored with such a nomination. He added to his resume by being first-team all-state in high school football. LeBron's talents were.
Kostya Tszyu - fighting in tournaments. He trained with that group 250 days a year, and won various tournaments, such as amateur boxing's world championships. He also participated in the Olympic Games. At the Cuban world championship tournament in 1987, he came in second place, and at the Seoul Olympic games, he lost in the third round. Kostya was a member of the Soviet military too, but since he was selected as an elite athlete, he did not have to participate in any wars. He fought at the world championships once again, in Moscow in 1989, where he came in third place. In 1991, he went again to the amateur world championships, this time held in Sydney. This was a trip that would change his life forever. Not only was the third time his.
January 10 - the prime minister of the United Kingdom. 1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published. 1971 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS. 1984 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola. 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. 1994 - Lorena Bobbitt goes on trial for severing the penis of her husband John (Manassas, Virginia). 2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history. Births 1769 - Michel Ney, a marshal of the French army (†1815) 1843 - Frank James, outlaw (†1915) 1858 - Heinrich Zille, illustrator and photographer (†1929).
Jesse Owens - Jesse Owens James Cleveland Owens (September 12, 1913 - March 31, 1980) was an African-American athlete and civic leader. He was most famous for his participation in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany where he put the lie to Adolf Hitler's claims of German "Aryan superiority" by winning four gold medals and becoming the star of the games. Owens setting the world record in the long jump at the University of Michigan in 1935 () He was born in Oakville, Alabama and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He was given the name Jesse by a Cleveland teacher who did not understand his accent when he said his initials were J.C. In a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935 at the Big Ten meet in Ann.
Jim Thorpe - Jim Thorpe James "Jim" Thorpe (May 28, 1888 - March 28, 1953) was an American sportsman. He was born in Prague, Oklahoma. Thorpe, a Sac Indian (his Sac name was Wa-Tho-Huk or Bright Path), participated in many sports, playing American football and baseball, before he competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. There he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events, earning him a compliment from the Swedish king: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." In 1913, however, Thorpe had to return his medals, as it was discovered that he had played semi-professional baseball in 1909 and 1910, which was against the - then very strict - amateurism rules. However, the medals were restored again in 1982, though Thorpe had died almost 30 years.
Jim Hines - Jim Hines James Hines (born September 10, 1946 in Dumas, Arkansas) is an American athlete who held the 100 m World Record for 15 years. A baseball player in his younger years, Jim Hines was spotted by a track coach as an talent and became a sprinter. At the 1968 national championships in Sacramento, Hines became the first man to break the ten second barrier, setting 9,9 (manual timing), with a real time of 10.03 - two other athletes, Charlie Greene and Ronnie Ray Smth having got the same time on the other semi-final. A few months later, at the Olympics themselves, Hines - a black athlete - found himself in a tense situation, with racial riots going on in his home country and a threat of a.
John Maclean MA - he joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and remained in the organisation as it formed the British Socialist Party. By the time of World War I his socialism was of a revolutionary nature, although he worked with others on the left whose socialism wasn't, such as his friend James Maxton. He heavily opposed the war as he felt it was a war of imperialism which divided workers from one another. His politics made him well known to the authorities of the day, and in 1915 he was sacked from his teaching post. As a consequence he became a full-time Marxist lecturer and organiser, educating other Glaswegian workers in Marxist theory. He would later found the Scottish Labour College. During World War I he was active in anti-war circles and was imprisoned.
June 21 - right to vote to some citizens. 1919 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnepeg General Strike. 1919 - Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War. 1940 - France surrenders to Germany. 1940 - First successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver British Columbia. 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister 1964 - Three Civil Rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the.
June 16 - Mary Katharine Goddard, early American printer and publisher (†1816) 1792 - John Linnell, English artist (†1882) 1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (†1855) 1801 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (†1868) 1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (†1885) 1813 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (†1869) 1820 - Athanase Coquerel, French protestant preacher (†1875) 1826 - Baron von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (†1897) 1829 - Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (†1909) 1836 - Wesley Merritt, soldier (†1910 ) 1837 - Ernst Laas, German philosopher (†1885) 1838 - Cushman Davis, politican (†1900) 1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (†1913) 1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden (†1950) 1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime.
