By Brenda June Temple
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to steroid use.[2][3]
Jones was one of the most famous athletes to be linked to the BALCO scandal.[4] The performance-enhancing substance usage scandal covered more than 20 top-level athletes, including Jones’s ex-husband, shot putter C.J. Hunter, and 100 m sprinter Tim Montgomery, the father of Jones’s first child.
Jones has also played professional basketball in the Women’s National Basketball Association, as point guard in the team of Tulsa Shock between 2010 and 2011.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- King Edward VI of England –
- Elmer Sperry (inventor) –
- Eugenio Montale (poet) –
- Doris Miller (Navy Cross recipient) –
- Luciano Pavarotti (opera singer) –
- Chris Wallace (broadcast journalist) –
- Hugh Jackman (actor) –
- Martie Maguire (musician, member of Dixie Chicks) –
- Kirk Cameron (actor) –
- Marion Jones (athlete) –
Died
- Robert E. Lee (American Confederate general) –
- John Denver (musician) –
- Wilt Chamberlain (basketball player) –
- Ray Conniff (bandleader) –
- Bill Shoemaker (jockey) –
Events
- Christopher Columbus first saw New World–
- Bavarian Crown Price Ludwig married Princess Therese of Hildburghausen in Munich. Their wedding celebration lasted for days, and became a yearly tradition known today as “Oktoberfest.”–
- An iron lung respirator used for the first time in Boston, MA–
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show made its television debut. Burns and Allen had been on the radio since 1935–
- Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson won Nobel Peace Prize–
- U.S.S.R.’s Voskhod 1 launched–
- The U.S. Navy concluded its Sealab II program, in which teams of aquanauts lived and worked in a capsule submerged off the California coast–
- 19th Summer Olympic games began, Mexico City, Mexico–
- Jesus Christ Superstar, the Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, premieres in New York–
- Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize–
Weather
- The Columbus Day “Big Blow” in Oregon and Washington brought 100 mph winds, damaging trees and killing 48 people–
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