First sub-4-minute mile (Bannister)
1954 · Event
Roger Bannister runs 3:59.4 at Iffley Road, Oxford.
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Around 1954
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)