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The Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation incorporated Speical Olympics after being started in Eunice Kennedy Shriver's backyard as a day camp in the lat '60s.
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Special Olympics Colorado held their first event at Aurora Hinkley High School
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International Olympic Committee officially recognized Special Olympics
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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r-word.org website was launched
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people with and without intellectual disabilities campaigned against "Tropic Thunder" and their use of the r-word
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the medical term "mental retardation/mentally retarted" was officially changed to "individual with an intellectual disability/intellectual disbility" by President Obama