American female athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in 1962, achieved significant success in the heptathlon and the long jump. A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events.
He was born in Paris in 1901. Jean Prouve has become one of the representatives of the modern and functional trend by creating furniture designs that are not overly ostentatious but are friendly and user-friendly.
American athlete James Cleveland Jesse Owens, born on September 12, 1913, achieved an impossible feat by breaking 4 world records in 2.5 hours in 1935. "Sometimes just running is enough to destroy an ideology."
Erkin Koray, alongside Orhan Gencebay, were the inventors of the electro baglama, the electric version of a traditional Turkish musical instrument related to the lute. Koray was active in the Turkish rock music scene since the late 1950s.
The artist became famous in the world as the composer of the films 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Chariots of Fire. Vangelis also earned BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for the score of Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner.
British football player Kevin Campbell, who had a serious illness for a long time but whose condition was kept secret, died at the age of 54. The death of the player, who had been hospitalized for a while, was confirmed by Nottingham Forest teammate Mark Crossley.
In the 1970s, when the arrangement fashion faded away and was replaced by the "Anatolian Pop" movement, he went to France in 1971 and started working as a taxi driver. While there, he contracted throat cancer in 1981 and lost his voice.
If you wrote one of the most famous novels of modernist literature at the age of twenty-six, there is a high probability that your name is Elias Canetti. The novel Blinding is almost Cannetti's only literary text. Perhaps it will be an exception until the end of time that Canetti will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for a single novel.
"The earthquake killed thousands of people in Nicaragua; and my favorite baseball player, Roberto Clemente, the most graceful and dynamic player of his generation, crashed in a small plane delivering aid to earthquake victims."
Nawal Al Moutawakel managed to become the first athlete from a Muslim country to win a gold medal. This was also the first gold medal awarded in the women's 400-meter hurdles category.
