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Jesse Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama
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United States introduced income taxes (the 16th amendment)
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Jesse Owens moves with family to Cleveland, Ohio
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The first ever Winter Olympic Games held in France
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Adolf Hitler elected chancellor of Germany
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Jesse Owens at Big Ten Championships, sets three world records and ties another in less than an hour. Marries Ruth Solomon
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Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany
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Germany invaded Poland, started World War II
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He is named top track athlete of the first half of the twentieth century
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Brown vs. Board of Education ruling by Supreme Court- ends school segregation
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He was sent on international goodwill tour by President Eisenhower
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Starts his own advertising and marketing company
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March on Washington and major civil rights rally- President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act passed by Congress, made all segregation illegal
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Civil rights leader Martin Luther Jing Jr. assassinated
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Jesse Owens was elected for board of directors of Us Olympic Committees
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Last US forces to leave Vietnam at the end of Vietnam War
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He was given Presidential Medal of Freedom
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America celebrated the Bicentennial, its two hundredth birthday
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To protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the US does not send athletes to the Summer Olympics in Moscow
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Jesse Owens dies of lung cancer in Arizona at age sixty-six
