She easily beats Fritzi Burger of Austria and Beatrix Loughran of the U.S. 1932 — Sonja Henie wins her sixth straight world title. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan orders the arrest of three ...

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 ...

S., where she has been developed into a Hollywood cinemactress in the two years since she abdicated her amateur standing as figure-skating champion of the world, Sonja Henie’s popularity is fast ...

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 ...

Troy Terry, Cutter Gauthier, Jackson LaCombe and Frank Vatrano also scored for the Ducks, who took the lead for good with three goals in the first eight minutes of the second. The Ducks have won three ...

2005 — Irina Slutskaya joins the elite company of Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie by winning a sixth title at the European Figure Skating Championships. 2006 — Roger Federer wins his seventh ...

1950 — In an Associated Press poll of sports writers and broadcasters, Jack Dempsey is voted the greatest fighter of the past 50 years. Dempsey received 251 votes to 104 for Joe Louis.

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 ...

2006 — Irina Slutskaya wins her seventh European figure skating title, breaking the record she shared with Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie. 2008 — Bode Miller wins the downhill at the ...

2000 — Utah’s Karl Malone becomes the third player in NBA history to score 30,000 points when he makes a layup with 8:53 left in the third quarter of a 96-94 loss to Minnesota.