Dear Readers,
On This Day in 1972, baseball legend Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates was killed in a plane crash while delivering earthquake relief supplies to Managua, Nicaragua. Now a member of Baseball's Hall of Fame, Clemente is equally celebrated for the compassion and generosity he exhibited off the field. Major League Baseball each year bestows an award in his honor to the player that best exemplifies the standards of sportsmanship and humanitarianism.
Our article links to a PBS American Experience video about Clemente; its "Teacher Resources" link says it "offers insights into social studies topics including the history of Puerto Rico, immigration, baseball, activism, segregation, the civil rights movement, media treatment of minorities, American culture in the Sixties and Seventies, and more."
This day in 1908, Simon Wiesenthal was born. A Holocaust survivor who lived in 12 different concentration camps, he spent nearly six decades tracking down hundreds of Nazi criminals whom he considered most responsible for the deaths of millions during the war. He once promised his wife, also a Holocaust survivor, he would spend only 4 years pursuing Nazis and then move to Israeli; they never left Austria. He later explained, "If you want to cure Malaria, you have to live with the mosquitoes."
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