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September 12th

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  1. 1913
    The Rise

    Jesse Owens born

    James Cleveland Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama, the seventh of eleven children in a sharecropping family. He becomes the track and field star who wins four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler.

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