Sally Ride Returns to Earth Ride is a former astronaut and the first American woman to reach outer space. Ride was a nationally-ranked tennis player in high school before attending Stanford University for her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In 1983, Ride took part in her first space shuttle mission, serving as a crewmember on board the Challenger. Ride later served on the panels that investigated the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters. How many total hours has she spent in space?
The International Olympic Committee Is Founded The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that was founded by Pierre de Coubertin with the aim of reinstating the ancient Olympic Games that were held in Greece (776 BCE–393 CE). Today, the IOC constitutes a single legal entity that owns copyrights, trademarks, and other intangible properties associated with the Olympic games, such as the Olympic logos. When and where were the first modern Summer Olympics held?
Cuyahoga River Catches Fire Described in a Time magazine article as a river that "oozes rather than flows" and a waterway in which a person "does not drown but decays,” Ohio's Cuyahoga River used to be so heavily polluted that it actually caught fire on a number of occasions. The river fire of 1969, which received national media attention, helped spur the environmental movement of the late 1960s and prompted the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency. What sparked a 1936 fire on the river?
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