On May 8, , Harry S. Truman is born in Lamar, Missouri. The son of a farmer, Truman could not afford to go to college. He joined the army at the relatively advanced age of 33 in to fight in World War I. After the war, he opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. When that The drift toward war with Mexico had begun a year earlier when the U.
As any songwriter would, Sebastian first tried working that title into his On May 8, , with the release of Dr. No, North American moviegoers get their first look—down the barrel of a gun—at the super-spy James Bond codename: , the immortal character created by Ian Fleming in his now-famous series of novels and portrayed onscreen by the Stella Nickell is convicted on two counts of murder by a Seattle, Washington, jury.
She was the first person to be found guilty of violating the Federal Anti-Tampering Act after putting cyanide in Excedrin capsules in an effort to kill her husband. Stella and Bruce Nickell On May 8, , Congress passes the second portion of the Militia Act, requiring that every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years be enrolled in the militia.
Live TV. The athletic characters of L. Women ran the marathon for the first time and Joan Benoit of the United States won. Carl Lewis emulated the great Jesse Owens and captured four gold medals in track and field competition, the m, m, Long Jump, and 4xm relay. The People's Republic of China returned to the summer Olympics for the first time since Helsinki in and male gymnast Li Ning won six medals which earned him the nickname, "The Prince of Gymnastics" back home.
The swimmers led by Alex Baumann, the late Victor Davis, and Anne Ottenbrite broke through with ten medals, including four gold at the the University of Southern California's open air pool.
At the time everyone knew the Eastern Bloc and in particular the East Germans were doping to a huge degree. So with them out of the Games, it felt like it was back to the 'good old days' of a fair playing field. It was a relief to not have to feel athletes were being unfairly robbed of their chance to win medals.
For five-time Olympian and track and field star Charmaine Crooks, who won a silver medal in the women's 4xm relay, the momentous nature of arriving at the magnificent L.
Memorial Coliseum is forever etched in her memory. Olympic stadium with the lively crowd making us all feel like we were part of the home team," Crooks said via email from Vancouver.
The Los Angeles Olympics created many great Canadian sports moments and brought numerous characters to life. Perhaps more importantly they revived the Olympic spirit for many Canadian athletes in light of what had not happened four years earlier in Moscow.
It made me respectful of what I got and many of my teammates never had the chance to get. I have my medals and that's made the world of difference in my life. I truly value that. For Holloway and some of her contemporaries, the Games in Los Angeles could not completely close every wound.
Los Angeles had unsuccessfully bid for the two previous Summer Olympics of and The United States Olympic Committee had at least one bid for every Olympics since , but had not succeeded since the Los Angeles Games , the previous time a single bid had been issued for the Summer Olympics. Unlike later torch relays, the torch was continuously carried by runners on foot.
Noted athlete and actor O. Simpson was among the runners, carrying the torch up the California Incline in Santa Monica. Gina Hemphill, granddaughter of Jesse Owens, carried the torch into the Coliseum, completed a lap around the track, then handed it off to the final runner, Rafer Johnson , winner of the decathlon at the Summer Olympics.
With the torch, he touched off the flame which passed through a specially designed flammable Olympic logo, igniting all five rings. The flame then passed up to cauldron atop the peristyle and remained aflame for the duration of the Games. Athletes from nations competed at the Los Angeles Games. The People's Republic of China made their first appearance in a Summer Olympics since , while for the first time the Republic of China team participated as Chinese Taipei. Three Socialist countries disregarded the boycott and attended anyway: Yugoslavia which hosted the Winter Olympics , the People's Republic of China , and Romania.
The fact that Romania, a Warsaw Pact country, opted to compete despite Soviet demands led to a warm reception of the Romanian team by the United States. When the Romanian athletes entered during the opening ceremonies, they received a standing ovation from the spectators, which comprised mostly U.
Romania won 53 medals, including 20 golds, more than the nation has in any other Olympics. Given only one city per country is allowed to bid for any Games, the USOC vote for an American bid city was essentially the deciding vote for the Olympics host city.
In this case, Los Angeles's bid won by a vote of 55 to New York City's bid fell just 9 votes shy of winning the Games and is the closest the city has ever come to becoming a host city for the Olympics, coming even closer than they did in their bid. The low level of interest among cities was seen as a major threat to the future of the Olympic Games.
However, with the financially successful Los Angeles Games, cities began to line up to be hosts again.
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