"I have the right to believe that the world is a rotten place, but I don't," said Judah Samet, who survived two unthinkable tragedies: imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and the 2018 massacre at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue. He died this week of stomach cancer at age 84.
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Vin Scully, Hall of Fame broadcaster for the Dodgers in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, died Tuesday at age 94, the team announced.
Vin Scully, the hall-of-fame voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was honored after serving as the voice for the Boys in Blue for more than 60 years.
As the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. He began in the 1950s era of Jackie Robinson.
McGee battled fascism abroad and racism at home. He also flew in Korean and Vietnam wars for a total of 409 fighter missions — a record that still stands today.
US war pilot Charles McGee, who faced military segregation as he became a legendary member of the all-Black flying force known as the Tuskegee Airmen, died Sunday at age 102, officials said.
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Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to fly faster than sound, had died. He was 97.
The modest daredevil Charles Yeager, from a small town in West Virginia, flew faster than sound can travel at more than 660 mph in 1947. "In an age of media-made heroes, he is the real deal," said a biographer. Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff” told of his pioneering exploits.
His son's fortune in the tech field made the name "Bill Gates" known the world over. Since 2018 the son has spent $100 million on Alzheimer's research; the brain disease caused his father's death.
Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer.
Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer.
Nazi commanders signed their surrender to Allied forces in a French schoolhouse 75 years ago today, ending World War II in Europe and the Holocaust. Unlike the mass street celebrations that greeted this momentous news in 1945, surviving veterans are marking V-E Day this year in coronavirus c…
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