By Dan Rafael Since former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson retired from boxing following a knockout loss to Kevin McBride in 2005, he had not been involved in boxing in any meaningful way. …read more
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Today in History for 19th July 2013
Historical Events
1836 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1940 – Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films
1963 – Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1981 – 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George
1991 – Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1993 – Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
Famous Birthdays
1688 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1923 – William A. Rusher, American columnist
1952 – Alan Collins, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1958 – Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
1963 – Marla Duncan, Fairfield California, Miss Northern California fitness (1990)
1970 – Rhona Susan Robertson, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
Famous Deaths
1545 – George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1844 – Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1958 – Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1974 – Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83
1990 – Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
2012 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and intelligence officer, dies from a heart attack at 76
Source: FULL ARTICLE at HistoryOrb.Com – This Day in History
Your Voice Could be Costing You Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars, Study Shows
If James Earl Jones were the boss, he would likely make hundreds of thousands a year more than a CEO who sounded like Mike Tyson. Those are the findings of new research by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. The study, published online April 8 in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, shows that male CEOs with deeper voices tend to manage larger companies, make more money and stay in their jobs for longer.
Plan to pardon black boxer
By hnn
A team of activists, politicians and celebrities has launched a campaign seeking the posthumous pardon of former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, who was convicted under a racially motivated sentence a century ago.
Mike Tyson, Harry Reid and John McCain have all lent their support to the campaign, starting a Change.org petition asking President Obama to posthumously pardon the world’s first African-American boxing champion of his racially motivated 1913 felony conviction.
Source:
Salon
Source URL:
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/06/new_push_to_pardon_boxing_legend_jack_johnson_partner/?source=newsletter
Date:
4-6-13
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University