Wednesday, October 28, 2009

October 28 Birthdays

1934
Jim Beatty, United States, middle-distance runner. James Tully Beatty was a NCAA All-American in the two-mile (1955, 1957) and the 5,000m (1956), but is most notorious for being the first man to run run 4:00 for the indoor mile, setting an indoor world record of 3:58.9 on 10 February 1962.

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