Sport May 6 1954
3:59.4 — Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile
On 6 May 1954, on a windy evening at Oxford's Iffley Road track, medical student Roger Bannister ran the mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds — the first human being to break four minutes, and the fall of sport's most famous barrier.
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