Since his arrival into the baseball scene in 1996, Derek Jeter has not only turned himself into a baseball icon but a symbol of athletic perfection as well. Spending his entire 20-year career with the New York Yankees, he helped them win 7 pennants and 5 World Series, while also making the All-Star team nearly every year.
Elizabeth Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 â April 30, 1926) was the first female African American pilot ever to hold an international pilot license. She fought discrimination to follow her dream of becoming a pilot. 1 Early Life.
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 â June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer.He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album.Coleman's timbre was easily recognized: his keening, crying sound drew heavily on blues music. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. Ornette Coleman tribute by Jazz at Lincoln Center. 2  Jazz Conversations with Eric Jackson: Ornette Coleman (Part 1) from WGBH Radio Boston. 3  Jazz Conversations with Eric Jackson: Ornette Coleman (Part 2) from WGBH Radio Boston. 4  I-Huei Go, Ornette Coleman, New York Observer, December 19, 2005.