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2000 Women's Olympic Diving

3m Springboard: 1. Fu Mingxia, CHN (609.42 pts); 2. Guo Jingjing, CHN (597.81); 3. Doerte Lindner, GER (574.35). 10m Platform: 1. Laura Wilkinson, USA (543.75 pts); 2. Li Na, CHN (542.01); 3. Anne…

Larry Csonka Biography

Larry CsonkaBorn: Dec. 25, 1946Football RB powerful runner and blocker who gained 8,081 yards in 11 seasons in the AFL and NFL; won two consecutive Super Bowls with the Miami Dolphins (1973-…

Mark Messier

Mark MessierBorn: Jan. 18, 1961Hockey C 2-time NHL MVP with Edmonton (1990) and NY Rangers (1992); captain of 1994 Rangers team that won 1st Stanley Cup since 1940; ranks 2nd in all-time…

Buddy Hackett 2003 Deaths

Buddy HackettAge: 78 comedian whose cherubic face and brash delivery delighted stage, film, and television audiences for more than 50 years. He began his career in the Borscht Belt and proved…

Warner LeRoy 2001 Deaths

Warner LeRoyAge: 65 New York City restaurateur whose showmanship made Maxwell's Plum one of the city's trendiest restaurants in the 1960s. In 1973 he took over the Tavern on the Green, making…

David Spedding 2001 Deaths

David SpeddingAge: 58 spymaster, known as C, who headed Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1994 to 1999. He specialized in Middle East issues and in 1984 helped to prevent an…

Fernand Sastre 1998 Deaths

Fernand SastreAge: 74 co-president of the French World Cup organizing committee which led France's drive to host the tournament beginning in 1989; Sastre was also a longtime official with…

Ba Jin 2005 Deaths

Ba JinAge: 100 Chinese novelist long considered the country's most acclaimed writer. His works, which include the semi-autobiographical novel Family, challenged traditional Chinese family…

Sarah Caldwell 2006 Deaths

Sarah CaldwellAge: 82 opera director and conductor who founded the Boston Opera Group, later called the Opera Company of Boston. She was also the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera…

Lloyd Richards 2006 Deaths

Lloyd RichardsAge: 87 pioneering force in theater and Broadway's first African American director who staged the premiere production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in 1959. He…