President George H.W. Bush posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the late Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in track at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
President George Bush presents Ruth Owens, wife of Olympic star Jesse Owens, with a Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday March 28, 1990 in Washington during a ceremony at the White House. The president presented the medal to Mrs.
Owens for Jesse’s “humanitarian contributions in the race of life”.On March 28, 1990, President George H.W. Bush posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the late Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in track at the 1936 Berlin Olympics .In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled 6-2 that Wong, who was born in the United States to Chinese immigrants, was an American citizen. It was the first Supreme Court decision to rule on the citizenship status of a child born in the United States to noncitizen parents.FBI, NYPD thwart plot to assassinate NYC Palestinian activist Nerdeen KiswaniIn 1935, the notorious Nazi propaganda film “Triumph des Willens” , directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.In 1969, the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, died in Washington, D.C., at age 78. In 1979, America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. In 2024, FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of the exchange. In 2025, Utah became the first state to prohibit flying LGBTQ+ pride flags at schools and government buildings after Gov. Spencer Cox announced he was allowing a ban on unsanctioned flag displays to become law without his signature; the law took effect the following May.Dear Abby: If I can't see the baby, then I want my money backFremont High School students struggle to cope after ex-trainer’s arrest for murderAsking Eric: I'm not a flower scorekeeper, but what my friends did seemed cruelMiss Manners: Every year I get hit with the big, bad cake
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