August 9, 1936—Jesse Owens wins his fourth Gold Medal at the Olympics Games held in Berlin, Germany, making a mockery out of Adolph Hitler’s Aryan race supremacy theory.
Read more about him in AFRO-BETS Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, published by Just Us Books, pub date: October 2012.
August 8, 1866—Matthew Henson, the first person to reach the North Pole is born in Culver City, MD.
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