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Photograph:Arnold Palmer at the 1962 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga.

Arnold Palmer on the Masters

He was the first golfer to win the prestigious Masters Tournament four times, the first to earn $1 million on tour, and a pioneer in the world of sports marketing, and now he's author of Britannica's new coverage of this famed tournament—he's Arnold Palmer, pictured here en route to his third Masters victory. As another Masters begins this week, read more about the hallowed event from one of the legends of the sport.

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Born this day in 1483 was Italian master painter and architect Raphael, whose work is admired for clarity of form and ease of composition and who is best known for his Madonnas and large figure compositions in the Vatican.

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Pierre, baron de Coubertin, a founder of the International Olympic Committee and its president from 1896 to 1925, realized his goal of reviving the Olympics when the first modern Games opened in Athens this day in 1896.
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