SINGAPORE – On June 25, 1952, a 41-year-old Liu Kang was perched on a rented jukung in the Bali Strait – his face the colour of salted vegetables – feeling as if the canoe would at any time ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics ...

Chaudhary Brahm Prakash was born in 1918 in Nairobi, Kenya. He became the first Chief Minister of Delhi on March 17, 1952, at the age of 34, and served until February 12, 1955. He was elected from ...