He previously won a gold medal in boxing light heavyweight division at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium. 1936 — Sonja Henie of Norway, wins her third consecutive Olympics figure skating gold ...

United States Olympic ice hockey coach, Herb Brooks, left, speaks to members of the team during a break in practice at the ...

Theresa Weld Blanchard wins her sixth and final U.S. figure skating championship. Sherwin Badger captures his fifth straight and final men’s title. 1928 — Sonja Henie, ...

Battle of the Herrings fought during Hundred Years’ War when French and Scottish troops unsuccessfully attack English convoy (carrying ...

The last skater to do that was Norway’s brassy Sonja Henie, who in 1936 danced off the Olympic ice into a $1,000,000 Hollywood contract. Threes & Eights. When Barbara Ann skates, she seems to ...

That 1982 crash, in which the plane hit a bridge before plummeting into the Potomac River, unfortunately involved a former Chattanoogan as a deceased victim – Chalmers McIlwaine Jr., 41, the son of ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden won the men’s figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics. The ...

The next day, Herma Sazbo of Austria won the ladies figure skating event. Even though she finished eighth, 11-year-old Sonja Henie became the world’s darling, winning the next three Olympic golds and ...

The love story of King Harald and Queen Sonja will be the subject of a new drama on Prime Video, specifically their “nine-year battle for their forbidden romance,” according to The Daily Mail.

Red Sonja #18 arrives this week, as our favorite She-Devil faces off against a newly empowered Kulan Gath in a reality-warping finale that will shake the Hyborian Age to its core.

Transgender women are increasingly likely to be banned from the female category across Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become International Olympic Committee president backed a ...