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Born
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Owens does olympic tryouts
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First american to win 4 gold medals in the Olympics
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Becomes Assistant Personnel Director of African American workers, later promoted to director
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Travels to India, Philippines, and Malaysia to lead running clinics, to promote economic and political freedoms of the U.S.
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Memoir, Blackthink: My Life As A Black Man And A White Man Published
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Introduced to U.S Track and Feild Hall of Fame
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Highest Civilian honor: Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Owens diagnosed with lung cancer
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The Lord took his name: Owens dies
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Memorial Plaza is decated outside Ohio Stadium