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Claude Retherford 1998 Deaths

Claude RetherfordAge: 72 former University of Nebraska basketball star who was named mayor of Tulare, Calif. in 1992; a native of French Lick, Ind., Retherford was named Big 7 MVP in 1949,…

Sir Fred Hoyle 2001 Deaths

Sir Fred HoyleAge: 86 prominent astrophysicist who wrote extensively about cosmological theory, the belief that the universe is in a steady state of time and space. He mockingly coined the…

Harrison Smith Glancy 2002 Deaths

Harrison Smith GlancyAge: 98 lead swimmer on the United States' 800-meter freestyle team that set a world record at the 1924 Paris Olympics; also won a gold at the 1928 Games for swimming a…

Robert Hoffman 2006 Deaths

Robert HoffmanAge: 59 former business executive who in 1969 as a student at Harvard and an editor of the Harvard Lampoon cofounded the satirical magazine National Lampoon. He sold his shares…

Cary Grant Biography

Cary Grant(Archibald Alexander Leach)actorBorn: 1/18/1904Birthplace: Bristol, England Comfortable with comedy, suspense and costume drama, Grant defined debonair and suave both on- and off-…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 29, 1804

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 28, 1804June 30, 1804June 29, 1804 29th of June 1804, Set out from the Kansas river 1/2 past 4 oClock, proceeded on passed a Small run on…

Bones McKinney Biography

Bones McKinneyAge: 78 former Wake Forest basketball coach who coached from 1958–65 and led the Deacons to two their first two ACC titles and an appearance in the Final Four in 1962; known…

Mary Fendrich Hulman 1998 Deaths

Mary Fendrich HulmanAge: 93 chairman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 1977 and traditionally responsible for the famous command “Gentlemen, start your engines,” before each race;…