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March. 4 March – Purley rail crash: two trains collide at Purley, Surrey killing six people. [ 8] 6 March – Glasgow Bellgrove rail accident: two trains collide in Scotland, killing two people. 7 March – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the UK over Salman Rushdie 's controversial book The Satanic Verses.
The front page of The Sun on 19 April 1989 carried falsehoods about fan behaviour during the Hillsborough disaster. Coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster by the British tabloid The Sun led to the newspaper's decline in Liverpool and the broader Merseyside region, with organised boycotts against it. The disaster occurred at a football match ...
1936. August 8 – With five minutes remaining in extra time in an Olympic football match between Peru and Austria, a group of Peruvian fans, one brandishing a revolver, invaded the pitch and assaulted Austrian players, officials and stadium security; during the ensuing chaos, Peru scored two goals and won the match 4–2.
He was hired by MLB as an Ambassador of Inclusion in 2014, the first role of its kind in baseball, before rising to his current post. He was diagnosed with leukemia in December.
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Max Hauptman, USA TODAY. August 15, 2024 at 1:33 PM. A high school football player in Alabama died on Tuesday after collapsing during a team practice. The teen, a freshman at New Brockton High ...
Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash following the 1972 season.. This is a list of baseball players who died during their careers.While some of these deaths occurred during a game, the majority were the result of accidents off the field, illnesses, acts of violence, or suicide.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Friday unveiled an endorsement from the family of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old shot and killed by Ferguson, Mo., police in 2014. Bush is locked in a close primary race ...