Track and field athlete Mal Whitfield

Mal Whitfield

Living place: Texas

Birthday: 11-10-1924 (100 years old)

Population of US 1924: 114,109,000

Global rank: #54314

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Track and field athlete Mal Whitfield profile

Who is Track and field athlete Mal Whitfield?
Former runner nicknamed "Marvelous Mal" who won a total of three gold medals at the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games. He also won gold in the 400m, 800m, and 4x400m relay events at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires.
He became the first African-American athlete to win the James E. Sullivan Award as the best amateur athlete in the United States.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He served in the force with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II in the armed United States.

Family life info

His daughter is private anchor Fredricka Whitfield.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Track and field athlete Mal Whitfield?
He was the first track and field athlete from Jesse Owens to be inducted into the Ohio State University Varsity O Hall of Fame.

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When was Track and field athlete Mal Whitfield born?
Mal Whitfield birthday 11-10-1924 (at the age of 100).
Where is Track and field athlete Mal Whitfield's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Mal Whitfield was born in Texas, . is a Track and field athlete, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Mal Whitfield's global rank is 54314 and whose rank is 126 in list of famous Track and field athlete. Population of US in 1924 is about 114,109,000 persons.
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Events in 1924 and 11-10

Events in US in the birth year of Mal Whitfield

  • New York's Computer Tabulating Recording Company is re-organized and will now be known as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).
  • Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal, involving fraudulent leases of naval oil reserves. In 1931, Fall is sentenced to year in prison; Doheny and Sinclair acquitted of bribery.
  • Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confess to murdering 14-year-old cousin "in the interest of science." Clarence Darrow is defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of death sentence.

Birthday Mal Whitfield (11-10) in history

  • Day 11-10 year 1779: Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the Battle of Savannah, Georgia.
  • Day 11-10 year 1899: The Boer War began in South Africa.
  • Day 11-10 year 1915: English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans.
  • Day 11-10 year 1939: A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.
  • Day 11-10 year 1962: The first session of Vatican II was convened by Pope John XXIII.
  • Day 11-10 year 1968: The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
  • Day 11-10 year 1984: Space shuttle Challenger astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan, became the first American woman to walk in space.
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