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Jim Courier

Jim CourierBorn: Aug. 17, 1970Tennis No. 1 player in world in 1992, won 2 Australian Opens (1992-93) and 2 French Opens (1991-92); played on 1992 Davis Cup winner; Nick Bollettieri Academy…

Elizabeth Neuffer 2003 Deaths

Elizabeth NeufferAge: 46 award-winning journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. She died in a car accident in Iraq while covering the fallout from the war. Died…

Vivian Harris 2000 Deaths

Vivian HarrisAge: 97 stage actress, comedian, and chorus girl who appeared in a record 10,000 performances at the Apollo Theater. Known as the Voice of the Apollo, Harris also introduced the…

Bob Cousy

Bob CousyBorn: Aug. 9, 1928Basketball G led NBA in assists 8 times; 10-time All-NBA 1st team; 1957 MVP; led Boston to 6 NBA titles (1957,59-63); elected to Hall of Fame in 1970, one of NBA's…

Facts About Women in the House and the Senate

Here are some facts about women who have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Congress. 313 women have been elected or appointed to the U.S. Congress. Jeannette Rankin, Republican from…

The Morality of Birth Control

by Margaret Sanger The meeting tonight is a postponement of one which was to have taken place at the Town Hall last Sunday evening. It was to be a culmination of a three day…

Daniel Patrick Moynihan 2003 Deaths

Daniel Patrick MoynihanAge: 76 sociologist and politician who served four terms as a Democratic senator from New York, as ambassador to the United Nations and India, and as an aide to…

Rev. Leon Sullivan 2001 Deaths

Rev. Leon SullivanAge: 78 civil rights leader and Baptist pastor whose Sullivan Principles, guidelines that outlined how U.S. companies should operate their businesses in South Africa,…

Elena Tcherkasskaia 2001 Deaths

Elena TcherkasskaiaAge: 64 a 22-year veteran of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, who found additional success in her second career as a figure skating coach to some of the world's elite skaters,…

James Cameron Biography

James CamerondirectorBorn: 8/16/1954Birthplace: Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada If he does nothing else, Cameron will always be remembered as the Oscar-winning director of Titanic (1997), the top-…