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The Four-Minute Mile – Roger Bannister, 6 May 1954
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London © Sue Lowry & Magellan PR
January 1, 1970
As a twenty-five year old medical student, Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes on 6 May 1954.
A crowd of three thousand spectators watched as he broke the record at Iffley Road Track in Oxford, UK.
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copyright: British Pathé
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