American sportsman Rafer Johnson finished his first decathlon in 1954 as a sophomore in the University of California Los Angeles but made his mark in athletics when he won a gold medal in the decathlon in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. He’s appeared in a number of movies, such ...

Mary Leakey – Sources of World (TV14; 1:31) Mary Leakey’s discovery of early human fossils helped scientists to further understand the sources of mankind. She married Louis Leakey as well as the pair soon became one of science’s best known husband-wife teams. Mary continued working after her husband’s departure. Mary ...

Following his appointment as Ayatollah, Khomeini worked to take away the Shah from power for his associations together with the West. He’d later take his hometown as his surname and be understood by his more well-known moniker, Ruhollah Khomeini. In 1903, only five months after Khomeini’s arrival, his dad, Seyed ...

Ernest Gallo was born in Jackson, California, on March 18, 1909. In 1933, he along with his brother, Julio, founded E. & J. Gallo Winery. With Ernest managing the promotion and Julio functioning as the winemaker, the two introduced 16 brands of wine and cornered more than 25 percent of ...

Suffering from mental illness and severe fits of rage, Whitman killed his mom and wife and on August 1, 1966, went atop a 300-foot tower, targeting individuals in the locality. He’d kill 16 and injure many others before he was killed by cops, who stormed the tower.(They married in 1962.) ...

When he was about 8 years old, his family immigrated to America, where they ran a dry cleaning company in Virginia. Picked on by other pupils in a youthful age, Cho was later described by his school professors as a troubled loner. He was twice accused of stalking female pupils ...

Mamie Eisenhower – Miniature Biography (TV14; 3:54) View a brief biography of Mamie Eisenhower whose life drastically changed after she married Dwight Eisenhower. Minding the economical adversities of her age, she became known as a frugal first lady. Although she failed to alter the work of first lady, Mamie Eisenhower ...

Locke publicized the Harlem Renaissance to a broad audience. Locke expired in nyc on June 9, 1954. Alain LeRoy Locke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 13, 1886, to dad Pliny Ishmael and mom Mary Hawkins Locke. A talented pupil, Locke graduated from Philadelphia’s Central High School second in ...

Bob examined the “wet-on-wet” technique, which enabled him to create entire paintings within just one hour. Then he became an educator himself, eventually educating a TV audience of millions to the PBS show The Joy of Painting. Bob Ross, television’s renowned painting teacher, was born Robert Norman Ross in Daytona, ...

Produced in Kiev, Russia(now Ukraine), on May 25, 1889, Igor Sikorsky studied in his home city and Paris before deciding to follow his own vision for aeronautic design. He constructed the initial four-engine airplane in 1913 and, after decades of development, would craft the initial working chopper, with its first ...