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Jesse Owens practices in the Olympic Village in Berlin in August 1936 (© AP)(1936) Triumph for Owens at Hitler’s Olympics
Adolf Hitler is not pleased as US track-and-field star Jesse Owens, an African American, continues to rack up wins at the Summer Olympics held in Hitler’s Germany. But the Berlin stadium crowds cheer Owens’ long jump win and the show of camaraderie with his competitor, Germany’s Luz Long.
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in 1936 in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona. It marked the second and final time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city that was bidding to host those Games.
Number of athletes: 3,963
Start date: Aug 01, 1936
End date: Aug 16, 1936
Number of countries: 49

Jesse Owens at start of record breaking 200 meter race during the Olympic games 1936 in Berlin
Jesse Owens won four gold medals in Berlin. (Jesse Owens at start of record breaking 200 meter race during the Olympic games 1936 in Berlin)
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(1936) Triumph for Owens at Hitler’s Olympics.
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New recruits march with English officers in 1914 following the outbreak of WWI (© Hulton Archive/Getty Images)(1914) World powers take sides as the guns of August loom
A global conflagration flares higher as the United Kingdom joins France, Russia, Belgium, and other European powers in either mobilizing armies or declaring war on an aggressive Germany, whose support of Austria-Hungary advances what will be a war of immense destruction.
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. Unresolved rivalries still extant at the end of the conflict contributed to the start of the Second World War only twenty-one years later.
Start date: Jul 28, 1914
End date: Nov 11, 1918

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