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The 1954 Milan High School Indians won the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament championship in 1954. [1]With an enrollment of only 161, Milan was the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Indiana, beating the team from the much larger Muncie Central High School in a classic competition known as the Milan Miracle.
Mar. 21—MILAN — Dedication of the new Indiana State Historical Marker commemorating the "Milan Miracle" is set for Saturday, March 26, across the street from the Milan 54 Hoosiers Museum in ...
Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a Native American jazz singer [2] during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady", and "Mrs. Swing".
With the 1954 hit "Little Things Mean a Lot", she was voted the most popular female singer in Billboard and Variety polls. AllMusic called the recording a "monster hit", [ 4 ] and music historian Jonny Whiteside said the song "ably characterizes Kallen's impressive, and graceful, transition from classic big band swing to modern post-war pop ...
Gene White was one of the original members of the Milan, Indiana championship basketball team that inspired the film Hoosiers. At 5'11" White played center for the Milan Indians. White's family owned a local feed store, and his mother sold some of the family's chickens to fund a trip to Indianapolis for the state championship.
The final scene of the climactic championship game in Hoosiers (1986) was filmed at Hinkle Fieldhouse, the site of the 1954 championship game between Milan High School and Muncie Central. (The Milan team and the final game were the inspiration for the fictional basketball team in the movie.) [ 10 ] [ 16 ] [ 9 ] The film also featured the voices ...
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Scott George and the Osage Singers perform “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon” during the 96th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los ...