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95 relations: Actor, Amateur Athletic Union, American Broadcasting Company, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art of the Olympians, Associated Press, Association football, Athletics at the 1955 Pan American Games, Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics, Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics, Baseball, Basketball, Beach volleyball, Bill Disney, Bob Mathias, California Hall of Fame, Channing (TV series), Decathlon, Don McDermott, Elvin C. Drake, Elvis Presley, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Film, George Plimpton, Henry Jones (actor), Hillsboro, Texas, James Bond, James E. Sullivan Award, Jason Evers, Jenny Johnson Jordan, Jimmy Johnson (cornerback), Joe Posnanski, John Wooden, Kim Won-tak, Kingsburg High School, Kingsburg, California, Kirk Douglas, Licence to Kill, List of people who have lit the Olympic cauldron, Long jump, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Rams, Maria Shriver, Martin Lauer, Melbourne, Mike Henry (American football), Milt Campbell, None but the Brave, Olympic flame, ..., Olympic Games, Pan American Games, Pi Lambda Phi, Pirates of Tortuga, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Ralph Boston, Robert F. Kennedy, Robyn Perry, Roots: The Next Generations, Rosey Grier, Sacramento, California, Sanda Dubravčić, Sergei Belov, Sirhan Sirhan, Spartacus (film), Special Olympics, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year, Standard-bearer, Sydney, Taiwan, Tarzan, The California Museum, The Foundation for Global Sports Development, The Last Grenade, The New York Times, The Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C., The Sins of Rachel Cade, The Six Million Dollar Man, Timothy Dalton, Track & Field News Athlete of the Year, United States, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Vasili Kuznetsov (athlete), Wild in the Country, Woody Strode, World record, Yang Chuan-kwang, 1955 Pan American Games, 1956 Summer Olympics, 1959 NFL Draft, 1960 Summer Olympics, 1984 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics. Expand index (45 more) »
Actor
An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.
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Amateur Athletic Union
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder and powerlifter.
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Art of the Olympians
Art of the Olympians (AOTO) is an organization and program of Olympian and Paralympian artists that promotes the Olympic ideals of values, integrity, character, respect, honor, and work ethic through exhibitions and educational programs.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.
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Athletics at the 1955 Pan American Games
The Athletics Competition at the 1955 Pan American Games was held in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women.
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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 34 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 10 by women.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.
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Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.
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Bill Disney
Bill Dale Disney (April 3, 1932 – April 22, 2009) was an American speed skater who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics and 1964 Winter Olympics.
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Bob Mathias
Robert Bruce Mathias (November 17, 1930 – September 2, 2006) was an American decathlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the event, a United States Marine Corps officer, actor and United States Congressman representing the state of California.
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California Hall of Fame
The California Hall of Fame honors individuals and families who embody California’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history.
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Channing (TV series)
Channing (also known as The Young and the Bold) is an hour-long American drama series that aired at 10:00 p.m. on American Broadcasting Company from September 18, 1963 to April 8, 1964.
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Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events.
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Don McDermott
Donald "Don" Joseph McDermott (born December 7, 1929) is an American former speed skater.
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Elvin C. Drake
Elvin C. "Ducky" Drake (November 2, 1903 – December 23, 1988) was an American track and field coach and athletics trainer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Dame Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver, DSG (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was a member of the Kennedy family; she was the sister of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman.
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Henry Jones (actor)
Henry Burk Jones (August 1, 1912 – May 17, 1999) was an American character actor of stage, film and television.
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Hillsboro, Texas
Hillsboro is a city in and the county seat of Hill County, Texas, United States.
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James Bond
The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.
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James E. Sullivan Award
The AAU James E. Sullivan Award, presented by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), is awarded annually in April to "the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States".
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Jason Evers
Jason Evers (January 2, 1922 – March 13, 2005) was an American actor.
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Jenny Johnson Jordan
Jennifer A. Johnson-Jordan (born June 8, 1973) is an American female beach volleyball player.
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Jimmy Johnson (cornerback)
James Earl Johnson (born March 31, 1938) is a former American football player and track athlete.
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Joe Posnanski
Joe Posnanski (nicknamed "Poz" and "Joe Po"; born January 8, 1967) is an American sports journalist.
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John Wooden
John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and head coach at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Kim Won-tak
Kim Won-Tak (born July 21, 1964) is a South Korean long-distance runner who competed in the late 1980s.
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Kingsburg High School
Kingsburg High School (KHS) is a public high school in Kingsburg, California, United States.
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Kingsburg, California
Kingsburg (formerly, Kings River Switch, Wheatville, Kingsbury, Drapersville, Farleyville, and Kingsburgh) is a city in Fresno County, California.
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Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, producer, director, and author.
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Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill is a 1989 British spy film, the sixteenth in the ''James Bond'' film series produced by Eon Productions, and the last to star Timothy Dalton in the role of the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
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List of people who have lit the Olympic cauldron
The tradition of carrying the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, to the host city of the modern Olympic Games via a torch relay was first introduced in 1936, ahead of the Berlin Games.
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Long jump
The long jump (historically called the broad jump in the USA) is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is an American outdoor sports stadium located in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Los Angeles Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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Maria Shriver
Maria Owings Shriver (born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist, author, and former First Lady of California.
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Martin Lauer
Karl Martin Lauer (born 2 January 1937) is a retired West German sprinter who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Mike Henry (American football)
Michael Dennis Henry (born August 15, 1936) is an American retired actor and former football linebacker.
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Milt Campbell
Milton Gray Campbell (December 9, 1933 – November 2, 2012) was an American decathlete of the 1950s.
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None but the Brave
None but the Brave, also known as in Japan, is a 1965 war film with Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter.
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Olympic flame
The Olympic flame is a symbol used in the Olympic movement.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Pan American Games
The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a major sporting event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.
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Pi Lambda Phi
Pi Lambda Phi (ΠΛΦ), commonly known as PiLam, is a social fraternity with 148 chapters (67 active) and 15 colonies in the United States and Canada.
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Pirates of Tortuga
Pirates of Tortuga is a 1961 American Swashbuckler film which invented an alternate history for the actual Welsh privateer Henry Morgan.
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Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.
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Ralph Boston
Ralph Harold Boston (born May 9, 1939) is a retired American track athlete, and he is best remembered for the long jump, in which he was the first person to break the barrier.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator for New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.
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Robyn Perry
Robyn Ainsworth (born Robyn Perry in 1975) was a 12-year-old schoolgirl and figure skater who lit the Olympic Flame in the opening ceremony for the 1988 Winter Olympics.
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Roots: The Next Generations
Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA.
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Rosey Grier
Roosevelt Grier (born July 14, 1932) is an American actor, singer, Protestant minister, and former professional American football player.
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Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
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Sanda Dubravčić
Sanda Dubravčić-Šimunjak (born 24 August 1964) is a Croatian former figure skater who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.
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Sergei Belov
Sergei Alexandrovich Belov (Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Бело́в; January 23, 1944 – October 3, 2013) was a professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the senior Soviet Union national basketball team.
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Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (سرحان بشارة سرحان, born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship who shot and mortally wounded Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968; Kennedy died the following day.
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Spartacus (film)
Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Special Olympics
The Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to 5 million athletes and Unified States Sports partners in 172 countries.
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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.
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Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year
Since its inception in 1954, Sports Illustrated magazine has annually presented the Sportsperson of the Year award to "the athlete or team whose performance that year most embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement." Both Americans and non-Americans are eligible, though in the past the vast majority of winners have been from the United States.
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Standard-bearer
A standard-bearer is a person (soldier or civilian) who bears an emblem called or standard, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (and often honoured) as a formal, visual symbol of a state, prince, military unit, etc.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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Tarzan
Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.
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The California Museum
The California Museum, formerly The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts – home of the California Hall of Fame – is housed in the State Archives Building in Sacramento, one block from the State Capitol.
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The Foundation for Global Sports Development
The Foundation for Global Sports Development is a 501(c) organization which creates and supports programs promoting sportsmanship, education, fair play and ethics for children around the world.
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The Last Grenade
The Last Grenade is a 1970 British war film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Stanley Baker and Alex Cord as two soldiers of fortune, formerly comrades, who now find themselves on opposite sides.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C.
The Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C., Inc. was founded in 1938 with the goals of "improving relationship between persons interested in the game of football; that there may be given encouragement for good, clean sport; that there may be a more perfect understanding among such persons; and, that there may be mutual benefits and pleasures derived from such association.".
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
The Sins of Rachel Cade is a 1961 drama film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Angie Dickinson in the title role as well as Peter Finch and Roger Moore.
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The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar Man is an American science fiction and action television series about a former astronaut, Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors.
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Timothy Dalton
Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett (born 21 March 1946) is an English actor.
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Track & Field News Athlete of the Year
The Track & Field News Athlete of the Year award is given to track and field athletes by Track & Field News magazine, an American sports magazine.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.
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USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships is an annual track and field competition organized by USA Track & Field, which serves as the American national championships for the sport.
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Vasili Kuznetsov (athlete)
Vasili Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov (Василий Дмитриевич Кузнецов, 7 February 1932 – 6 August 2001) was a Russian decathlete who won the European title in 1954, 1958 and 1962.
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Wild in the Country
Wild in the Country is a 1961 American drama film directed by Philip Dunne and starring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, and Millie Perkins.
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Woody Strode
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine "Woody" Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor.
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World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill or sport.
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Yang Chuan-kwang
Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang (Amis: Maysang Kalimud) (July 10, 1933 – January 27, 2007), was an Olympic decathlete from Taiwan.
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1955 Pan American Games
The 2nd Pan American Games opened on March 12, 1955, in the University Stadium (now Olympic Stadium) in Mexico City, Mexico, in front of a capacity crowd of 100,000 spectators.
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1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in November–December 1956, apart from the equestrian events, which were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden.
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1959 NFL Draft
The 1959 National Football League draft had its first four rounds held on December 1, 1958, and its final twenty-six rounds on January 21, 1959.
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1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade), was an international multi-sport event that was held from August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy.
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1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles (LA), California, United States.
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2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and commonly known as Sydney 2000 or the Millennium Olympic Games/Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event which was held between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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References
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