1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal
1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal
1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of U.S. wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating
1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
1991 U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
1991 Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
1991 Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
1988 Louise Ritter, U.S., jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal
1988 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
1986 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
1984 Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball
1984 Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
1984 U.S. men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1984 West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality and gold medal
1980 USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
1980 USA beats U.S.S.R. in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
1972 Olga Korbut, U.S.S.R., wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1969 Brian Jamieson, born in Livingston, New Jersey, rower, 1996 Olympics silver medal
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1968 Marine James Anderson, Jr. is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1967 Anthony Nesty, swimmer, won Suriname's 1st gold olympic medal
1965 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1960 Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
1960 Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal
1960 U.S. wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
1960 U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats U.S.S.R. 3-2 en route to gold medal
1959 "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
1956 U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks
1945 Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements
1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945 Major Courtney, U.S. medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1944 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor
1943 Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal
1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
1939 Martin Feldstein, economist, 1977 John Bates Clark Medal
1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal, kid books author
1936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics
1936 At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland
1928 Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
1926 Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
1924 Charles Jewtraw, U.S. 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1918 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1915 F F Fletcher is 1st Admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
1915 Howard Cooke, Jamaica, 1991 Mico Gold Medal Award
1915 Paul A. Samuelson, economist, 1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal
1909 Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver, WW II-George Medal
1908 Arturo De Cordova, [Rodriguez], Merida Mexico, actor, Medal for Benny
1907 Clifford Curzon, born in London, England, pianist, MacFarren Gold Medal
1904 Isamu Noguchi, sculptor, 1963 Fine Arts Medal
1903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist, 1964 Richard Hooper Medal
1900 Henry O. Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition
1899 Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
1896 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1892 Alfred A Knopf, U.S., publisher, 1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal
1892 David Dubinsky, labor leader, Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom
1880 Lytton Strachey, biographer and critic, Benson Medal 1923
1874 1st U.S. Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1866 Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie, Pennsylvania, black composer, Springarn Medal
1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1864 Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor
1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1861 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor
1846 Randolph Caldecott, born in England, illustrator, Caldecott Medal namesake
1837 John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast, Burroughs Medal namesake
1776 Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
1718 William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer
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