On August 9, 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympic games.
from The Good News Network https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events060809/
'85 years ago today, track and field star Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics—a first for any American athlete.
German leader Adolf Hitler was using the Games to portray a resurgent Nazi Germany—and he had high hopes that German ‘Aryan’ athletes would dominate with victories over, what he believed to be, inferior Africans and Jews. But, Jesse Owens later recounted, “When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him.”
Owens was cheered enthusiastically by 110,000 people in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium—and later, ordinary Germans sought his autograph when they saw the world-record holder in the streets.'
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