EVB2925770: Gunder Hagg, Swedish runner with seven world records, arrived at LaGuardia Airport. June 6, 1943. He traveled from neutral Sweden to compete in U.S. track meets. Two years later, Hagg ran a mile in 4:01.4 seconds in Malmo, Sweden in 1945. The record held until broken by Roger Bannister in Oxford in 1954 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925855: Archie Moore on the canvas in the fourth round of his fight with 20 year old Cassius Clay. Nov. 15, 1962. It was one of three knockdowns that spelled the 48 year old Moore's defeat and Clay's 16th consecutive professional victory. Clay (a.k.a. Muhammed Ali) predicted he would stop Moore in four rounds, and he knocked Moore down three times in the fourth round / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925878: Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa, Sultan Mohammed VI, of French Morocco. Aug. 27, 1955. The French elevated him to replace the exiled Mohammed V 1953, but Moroccans violently resisted. Mohammed V returned in 1955, and negotiations brought Moroccan independence in March 1956 / Bridgeman Images