| 776 BC | 776 BC - The earliest known Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. From this date they were held every fourth year, without a break, for over a thousand years. This is remarkable because the Greek city states were often at war. However, during the period ...The earliest known Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. From this date they were held every fourth year, without a break, for over a thousand years. This is remarkable because the Greek city states were often at war. However, during the period of the Games there was a sacred truce. The Games were not just athletics meetings. They were religious festivals of great importance. The Olympic Games were always held in honour of the god Zeus. The Olympic Games ...  Show more  Show lessbooks.google.co.uk/books?id=E3u7IpniqBkC&pg=PA176
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| 1896 | Apr 1, 1896 - THE revival of the Olympic games at Athens success in the contest with Cronus for the I by an international athletic meeting dur- sovereignty of heavena myth which seems ing the present month lends a timely inter- to point to a Pelasgic origin of the games. est to the consideration of ... cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root= %2Fmoa%2Fcent%2Fcent0051%2F&tif=00813.TIF
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| 1932 | Jul 31, 1932 - Vice President Charles Curtis opened the tenth modern Olympic games under the strenuous beams of a blazing Cali fornia sun in Los Angeles Olympic stadium this afternoon before a crowd of 105000. Actual competition among athletes of thirty-nine nations for a. 105I000 ' CHEER OPETiNG ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/440116232.html?dids=440116232:440116232&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+31%2C...OLYMPIC+GAMES...
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| 1936 | Aug 2, 1936 - HITLER OPENS OLYMPIC GAMES. BEFORE 1207000 US Team Gets Cool. Reception. BY SIGRID SCHULTZ. Chlieazo Tribune Press Service.] BERLIN, Aug. 1.-Bearing the Olympic flame high above his head in a silver torch, a tall, blond runner raced swiftly through the stadium today in even strides ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/483065862.html?dids=483065862:483065862&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug...1936...OLYMPIC+GAMES...
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| 1956 | Nov 4, 1956 - AT 4:32 PM on the afternoon of Nov. 22 a young man wearing a plain. unmarked track suit will jog into the five-acre cricket grounds in Melbourne, Australia, run once around the track and touch his flaming magnesium torch to a gas-burning cauldron at the far end of the field. ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0911F8385A137A93C6A9178AD95F428585F9
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| 1968 | Oct 12, 1968 - Mexico's moment of glory--one of its first on the world stage-comes at approximately noon [Chicago time] tomorrow afternoon when President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz proclaims open the 1968 Olympic Games in a colorful ceremony to be. Feminine First. Mru. Janice York Romar, veteran Olympic ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/608600572.html?dids=608600572:608600572&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct...pub...Olympic+Games...
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| 1984 | Jul 11, 1984 - When Los Angeles was selected as home to the 1984 Olympics, the nation's airlines thought they would find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Executives envisioned plane cabins filled with sports fans, each of whom would be paying top dollar. By ROBERT E. DALLOS, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/673998242.html?dids=673998242:673998242&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+11%2C+1984...Olympic+Games...
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| 1996 | Aug 5, 1996 - Muhammad Ali has been presented with an Olympic gold medal to replace the one he won at the 1960 Games in Rome but later threw into a river in disgust. The former heavyweight champion was given the medal at half-time of the men's basketball final, many in the crowd weeping with emotion ... www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympic-games-tears-as-ali-has-new-gold-1308235.html
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| 2000 | Sep 8, 2000 - THE spectre of drugs dominating the Olympic Games, despite all the pious sentiments expressed by Olympic officials, continues to haunt Sydney. By Mihir Bose in Sydney. THE spectre of drugs dominating the Olympic Games, despite all the pious sentiments expressed by Olympic officials, ... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/4770861/Olympic-Games-Drug-seizures-cast-shadow-over-Sydney.html
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| 2008 | Aug 9, 2008 - By Xinhua writers Zhou Xiaozheng and Wang Jimin. BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Carrying Pierre de Coubertin's dream of "solidarity, peace and friendship" to the world's most populous country, the 29th summer Olympic Games opened in the Chinese capital Beijing on Friday, 112 years after ... news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/09/content_9067226.htm
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