Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. Shortly after his birth, his family moved and settled in Pasadena, California.

President Theodore Roosevelt, who died 25 days before Robinson was born, was the inspiration for his middle name.

Jackie was the youngest of five children—Edgar, Frank, Matthew “Mack,” and Willa Mae—and a little over a year after his birth, Robinson's mother moved the family to Pasadena, California.

Robinson attended John Muir High School, where he was placed on the Pomona Annual Baseball Tournament All-Star Team with fellow future MLB Hall of Famers Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox and Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians.

First flight occurred on February 9, 1969, followed by an extensive test program. The first 747 engine, the Pratt & Whitney JT9D, was an equally challenging engineering effort; it experienced numerous problems in initial service. The 747 quickly became a mainstay of the world's international airlines.

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Born: February 15, 1820, Adams

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Born: February 15, 1820, Adams

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. Crazy today 🏳️‍⚧️

Each of us also comes here tonight,” Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention in 2008, “by way of our own improbable journey” and “driven by a simple belief that . . . we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.” Michelle Obama’s journey began in the South Side of Chicago, where Fraser and Marian Robinson instilled in their daughter a heartfelt commitment to family, hard work, and education.

Williams was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan. She and her older sister Venus were introduced to tennis at age 4 by their father, Richard, whose stated goal was to raise them to be champions. The sisters’ unlikely ascent began on shoddy public courts in Los Angeles, California. Both girls played exhibition matches against leading professionals before they reached their teens. In 1991 the family moved to Florida, where the sisters enrolled in a tennis academy.

Williams’ professional debut came in 1995. Two years later, in only her fifth professional tournament, she upended Mary Pierce, ranked seventh, and Monica Seles, ranked fourth, to reach the semifinals at the Ameritech Cup in Chicago. At number 304, she was the lowest-ranked player ever to have beaten two top-ten players in the same tournament. After the competition, her world singles ranking soared to 102.

Expectations for Williams began to grow quickly. Her father made bold statements to the media about his talented daughters, who both signed multimillion-dollar endorsement deals. Less than a year later, in June 1998, Williams reached the top 20. In April 1999—after having defeated Amelie Mauresmo to win the Paris Indoor Open, Steffi Graf to win the Indian Wells masters tournament, and Martina Hingis in the semifinals at the Lipton Championship—Williams broke the top ten at number nine. The 17-year-old champion reached the top five at number four after winning the U.S. Open later that year. As the tournament’s seventh seed, Williams was the lowest-seeded woman to win the U.S. Open title since the beginning of the open era in 1968. She was the second African American woman to win a Grand Slam event, after Althea Gibson’s victories in 1957–58.