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On This Day in 1896 the First Modern Olympic Games Began in Athens
On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...
Coventry smashes glass ceiling to become first woman and first African to lead IOC
Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s ...
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An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
the city that in ancient times was the birthplace of the games that later inspired the modern Olympic Games. Greece’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, attended a ceremony Friday at the museum ...
History Today: When the United States joined World War I
It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers ...