Mary Lou Retton is ‘fighting for her life’ as she battles a rare
form of pneumonia. She was unable to breathe on own and
is in ICU.
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens
(September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980)
On this day at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, African American track
star Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Games in
the 4×100-meter relay. His relay team set a new world record of
39.8 seconds, which held for 20 years. In their strong showing in
track-and-field events at the XIth Olympiad, Jesse Owens and
other African American athletes struck a propaganda blow
against Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who planned to use the Berlin
Games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority.
Owens with Adolf Hitler.
Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump
at the 1936 Summer Olympics. L-R, Naoto Tajima, Owens,
Luz Long.
One of Jesse Owens’ four gold medals won at the 1936
Olympics in Berlin.
MIKE GRACIA
ROSS SIMPSON
Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh)
(May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998)
Tammy Waynette was one of country music’s best-
known artists and biggest-selling female singers
during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s.
Wynette charted 20 number-one songs on the
Billboard Country Chart. She is credited with
having defined the role of women in country
music during the 1970s.
Tammy died on April 6, 1998, at the age of 55
while sleeping on her couch in her Nashville,
Tennessee, home. Her doctor from said she
died of a blood clot in her lung.
