Sohn Kee-chung wins the Olympic marathon
1936 · Event
A Korean runner, forced to compete for Japan under a Japanese name, wins gold in Berlin and bows his head as the Japanese anthem plays.
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More from Korea
- Division of Korea at the 38th parallel (1945)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)
- Silla unifies Korea (668)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- King Sejong invents Hangul (1443)
- Founding of North and South Korea (1948)
- North Korea invades South (1950)
- Three Kingdoms of Korea period (57 BCE)
Around 1936
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)