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| 1934 |
| | | British tennis player Fred Perry wins the first of three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles | |
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| 1935 |
| | | US athlete Jesse Owens sets three world records and equals a fourth within the space of less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
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| 1936 |
| | | At the Berlin Olympics, attended by Hitler, the African-American athlete Jesse Owens sets three new Olympic records and equals a fourth | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Joe Louis, 'The Brown Bomber', defeats James J. Braddock to become world heavyweight champion | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Gloucestershire batsman Wally Hammond becomes captain of the England Test team | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Yorkshire batsman Len Hutton scores a record 364 in a Test match against Australia at the Oval | |
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| 1938 |
| | | US tennis player Donald Budge becomes the first person to achieve the grand slam, winning all four majors in the same year | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Maurice 'Rocket' Richard is the first to score 50 goals in a Canadian National Hockey League season | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Baseball-player Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in a major league team | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Donald Bradman retires from Test cricket with a tantalizing career average of 99.94 runs | |
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