Though nobody appreciated it at the time, on December 30 1954 a television institution was born. At the Savoy Hotel in London ...

“It was as if Mount Everest had been relocated to Oxford – and we could watch it being climbed,” recalls the historian Peter Whitfield, who was only six in 1954 when, exactly a year after Edmund ...

There is a physics sort-of-joke that Einstein got the Nobel as a consolation prize, because he won it for the photoelectric effect, a footnote compared to his mind-bending theory of relativity. Sir ...

Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88. Bannister's family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the English city ...

(LONDON) — It was a typical British afternoon in early May: wet, cool and blustery. Not exactly the ideal conditions for running four laps around a track faster than many thought humanly possible. A ...

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — The world of athletics stopped to watch Roger Bannister run as a black-and-white video was shown on a giant screen at the world indoor athletics championships on Sunday.

It’s impossible to know for sure that no human had run the distance of a mile in less than four minutes before May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister, a twenty-five-year-old medical student, completed four ...

FILE - In this May 6, 1954 file photo, Britain’s Roger Bannister hits the tape to break the four-minute mile in Oxford, England. The running shoes worn by Roger Bannister when he broke the 4-minute ...

Roger Bannister ran history’s first sub-four-minute mile on May 6, 1954, on the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England. My own personal history began on the same day at Sisters of Charity Hospital in ...

Reporting from LONDON — Roger Bannister, knight of the realm, distinguished neurologist and medical researcher, college president, noted author, sometime TV commentator and, oh yes, the first man to ...

As BBC Sport relayed, the Bannister family released a statement confirming the news on Sunday morning. In it, they noted the legendary runner "died peacefully" and "surrounded by his family who were ...

LONDON — It was a typical British afternoon in early May: wet, cool and blustery. Not exactly the ideal conditions for running four laps around a track faster than many thought humanly possible. A ...