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At Just 19, Runner with Down Syndrome Makes History as the Youngest Such Person to Finish the London Marathon
19-year-old Lloyd Martin has become the youngest person ever to finish the London Marathon with Down Syndrome.
Receiving a Guinness World Records plaque at the...
Good News in History, April 14
41 years ago today, EMI released David Bowie's 15th studio album Let's Dance. The album became Bowie's greatest commercial success, with 11 million albums sold and...
French Woman Smashes Previous World Rope Climbing Record by Reaching Eiffel Tower’s 2nd Floor–(WATCH)
Remember the free hanging rope climb exercise in PE class, remember how difficult that was? Well, evidently there are some people who...
Good News in History, April 6
59 years ago today, the first commercial communications satellite, Intelsat I, was placed in geosynchronous orbit. The tiny 2-foott device (nicknamed Early Bird for...
Good News in History, March 30
Happy 60th Birthday to singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. Her debut album Tracy Champman has been certified sextuple-platinum and received 6 Grammy Award nominations. Her down low...
Good News in History, March 25
65 years ago today, Elvis Presley performed live at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena in a benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial. The concert was...
Britain’s Oldest Soccer Senior at 90-years-old Is Still the ‘Ninja’ of Goals–Playing 3x a Week
Britain's oldest striker is still banging in the goals for his local soccer team three times a week—at the grand old age of 90.
Sprightly...
Good News in History, February 22
195 years ago today, Spain sold Florida to the United States as part of the Adams-Onis Treaty. It settled a standing border dispute between...
Good News in History, February 20
208 years ago today, The Barber of Seville, one of Italian opera's greatest classics, debuted at the Teatro Argento in Rome. It tells the story of...
Good News in History, February 18
Happy 70th Birthday to John Travolta, star of such films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Hairspray, and Swordfish. His accolades...
NFL Scores Touchdown for Renewables: The Super Bowl Was 100% Solar Powered
The biggest sporting event in America went green this year thanks to its position out in the desert. 621,000 solar panels channeled the electricity...
Good News in History, February 4
24 years ago today, World Cancer Day was initiated on February 4th after The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of...
Good News in History, January 26
100 years ago today, the first ever Olympic gold medal was won in a Winter sport. American speed skater Charles Jewtraw (right) won the...
Good News in History, January 24
66 years ago today, thermonuclear fusion, a process that replicates the way that stars form, was first carried out by James Tuck and Marshall...
Good News in History, December 12
121 years ago today, Theodor Mommsen received the Nobel Prize for Literature, with a special mention for A History of Rome, a history so well-researched, so...
First Fully-Electric MLS Soccer Stadium Being Built in New York City Could Transform the Whole Neighborhood
New York City Football Club (NYCFC) recently revealed their proposal for a new soccer stadium in Willets Point, Queens, that would be totally electric,...
Pipe Dreams Comes True For Top Tradesmen at the First National Plumbing Championship
On a mission to elevate the profile of plumbers, the first-ever Plumbing National Championship attracted the crème de la crème of American tradespeople to...
Pole Vaulters Agree to Share Gold Medal in Unexpected Twist at High Stakes World Championship–WATCH
After matching each other in normal rounds, two Olympic pole vaulters continued to battle it out over three tiebreaker rounds to see who would...
A Lost Dog Treks 150 Miles Across Alaskan Sea Ice Before He’s Reunited with His Family
Off the coast of the far-northern Alaskan town of Nome, and closer to Russia than the US, lies Saint Lawrence Island, where in a...
Dutch Woman Smashes a World Record Unbroken For 41 Years–While Her Home Audience Cheers
A 41-year-old world record in women's track and field stands no longer after a young Dutch speed demon smashed it in front of her...