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.
Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday in Manhattan.He was 85.The cause was cardiac arrest, a family representative said.Mr. Coleman widened the options in jazz and helped change its course.r. Coleman made his first album, âSomething Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman,â in 1958 for the Contemporary Records label. No recording of Mr. Colemanâs holds closer to the model of Charlie Parker. But he adhered less to a strict rhythmic grid than Parker did.