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The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History was the brainchild of Dr. David Van Tassel, a history professor at Case Western Reserve University and the creator of National History Day. Van Tassel was approached by Homer Wadsworth, the director of The Cleveland Foundation, to write a history of Cleveland. Van Tassel decided that the project was best ...
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. [ 3 ] Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". [ 4 ]
And on August 21, 1939, less than two weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Time magazine predicted that Watson would be America's 1940 Olympic hero, even comparing him to Jesse Owens. [5] Time's August 1939 profile of Watson stated, "In the 1936 Olympics, the No. 1 hero was Negro Jesse Owens of Cleveland ...
The horse is needed to race against Jesse Owens, Olympic Champion.” Berlin, 1936: Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the men’s 200 meter at the Summer Olympic Games. Owens won four gold medals.
First president of Western Reserve College 2: Rev. George Edmond Pierce: 1834–1855: 3: Rev. Henry Lawrence Hitchcock: 1855–1871: President during the Civil War: 4: Rev. Carroll Cutler: 1871–1886: Moved the college to Cleveland and renamed to Western Reserve University 5: Rev. Hiram Collins Haydn: 1887–1890: 6: Rev. Charles Franklin ...
Case alum Herbert Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention John Macleod, 1923 Nobel Prize winner for discovering insulin and Western Reserve University Professor of Physiology Ferid Murad, 1998 Nobel Laureate and Case Medical School MD/PhD alumnus David Satcher ...
Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University. ISBN 978-082950219-0 – via Internet Archive. Dutka, Alan F. (2020). Christmas in Cleveland. Charleston: The History Press. ISBN 978-1540245397. Dutka, Alan F. (2012). Cleveland's Short Vincent: The Theatrical Grill and its Notorious Neighbors. Cleveland: Cleveland Landmarks Press.
The Lumen tower completed in Downtown Cleveland. Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic host the first 2020 U.S. presidential debate at the Health Education Campus (HEC). [21] 2021 2021 NFL draft held in Cleveland at FirstEnergy Stadium. Frank Jackson announces that he will not pursue a fifth term as mayor. [22]