Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)
Ronald Reagan was a politician and actor who served as
the 40th president of the United States from January
20, 1981 – January 20, 1989.
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05
Feb
FORTIETH PRESIDENT BORN ON THIS DAY
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03
Aug
ACCOMPLISHED SPORTS ICON IS 48 TODAY
Football player and broadcaster Tom Brady won seven Super
Bowl titles and some consider the best quarterback of all
time and one of the greatest athletes in sports history.
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04
Feb
FIRST BLACK COACH TO WIN SUPER BOWL
Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts became the first African
American NFL head coach to win a Super Bowl.
The victory marked the first time a Black head coach had
reached the National Football League’s championship game,
one that featured not just one, but two Black head coaches.
Super Bowl XLI pitted Dungy and his Colts against Lovie Smith,
head coach of the Chicago Bears.
The Bears shocked the Colts with a 92-yard kick return for a
touchdown in the first 14 seconds of the game. Despite this
demoralizing start, the Colts and quarterback Peyton Manning
came back to defeat the Bears, 29-17.
It was the Colts’ first Super Bowl victory since 1971, when they
played in Baltimore.
Dungy (center) along with colleagues Dan Patrick and Rodney Harrison at an NFL game in Denver in September 2013.
Anthony Kevin Dungy (69).
Since retiring, Dungy has served as a TV sports analyst. He
is an evangelical Christian, and at one point in his coaching
career considered leaving football for the prison ministry.
Throughout his career, he has remained involved with
community service organizations.
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27
Dec
SPORTS ANCHOR HAS DIED AT AGE 78
(FOX NEWS) – Greg Gumbel, who broadcast the NFL
on CBS and served as the network’s studio host for
March Madness, has died after a bout with cancer.
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26
Aug
THE FIRST TIME ON TELEVISION IN 1939
On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
The Reds won the first, 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second,
6–1.
This all started in April of 1939 with the opening of The World’s
Fair, when David Sarnoff told the nation that RCA had “added
radio sight to sound”, and officially kicked off the age of
television.
Barber (in suit) called the first game on NBC Radio and
moved over to TV for the second game.
The President of RCA, David Sarnoff, dedicating the RCA
Building at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.
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