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Roger Bannister. 1929-. English track and field athlete. I n 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes. A noted British runner, he won the British mile championships in 1951, 1953, and 1954, and also won the Empire championship in 1954. In addition, he won the European 1,500 meter championship in 1954.
Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert (1929– ) English track and field athlete. On May 6, 1954, Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes (3min. 59.4sec). He was knighted in 1975, and in 1995 was appointed chair of a government scheme to introduce sports scholarships. Pick a style below, and copy the text for your ...
Roger Bannister, Bannister, Roger 1929- English track and field athlete In 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes. A noted… Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert (1929– ) English track and field athlete. On May 6, 1954, Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than ...
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister. 3/23/1929. ENGLISH. NEUROLOGIST. On May 6, 1954, at Oxford, England, Roger Bannister became the first runner in history to run a one mile race in under 4 minutes, crossing the finish line in 3.59.4 minutes. Bannister's achievement was also notable because his daily training program never exceeded 48 minutes per day.
BANNISTER, Sir Roger (Gilbert)BANNISTER, Sir Roger (Gilbert). British, b. 1929. Genres: Medicine/Health, Sports/Fitness.
Bannister was born between 1826 and 1828 in St. Andrews, a tiny seaport on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the St. Croix River in New Brunswick, Canada. His father, who may have been a native of Barbados, West Indies, died early in Bannister's life. The racial identity of Bannister's mother, Hannah Alexander Bannister, is not known.
Bannister, Edward Mitchell. c. 1826. January 9, 1901. Edward Mitchell Bannister was born sometime between 1826 and 1828 in St. Andrews, a small seaport in New Brunswick, Canada. His father Edward Bannister, probably a native of Barbados, died in 1832, and Edward and his younger brother, William, were raised by their mother, Hannah Alexander ...
Sir Ferdinando Gorges. The English colonizer and soldier Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1568-1647) was an important promoter of New England colonization. Ferdinando Gorges's career covered the years from the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) to the surrender of Charles I (1645) during the English civil war. This was the era when English efforts at ...
Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewen. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel (kăm´ərən, lŏkh-ēl´), 1629–1719, chief of the Scottish highland clan of Cameron after 1647. On behalf of Charles II he led his clan in an uprising against the Commonwealth in 1653, and only in 1658 did he submit to the Puritan general George Monck. He accompanied Monck to London ...
Chisholm, Shirley (1924—) First African-American woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives (1968) and first African-American woman candidate for the presidency of the U.S. (1972). Pronunciation: CHIZ-um. Born Shirley Anita St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York; daughter of Charles ...