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* 5000m – gold medal: Reidar Liaklev ( Norway )
* 5000m – gold medal: Clas Thunberg ( Finland )
* 5000m – gold medal: Ivar Ballangrud ( Norway )
* 5000m – gold medal: Ivar Ballangrud ( Norway )
* February – Australia takes its first Winter Olympic medal when the Australian short track speed skating team wins bronze in the 5000m relay at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
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He also captured the World Championship 5000m silver medal in 2003 and the Olympic 5000m gold medal in 2004.
* Sonia O ' Sullivan, World Champion in 5000m in 1995, European Champion in 3000m in 1994, won double gold at the 1998 European Championships at 5000m and 10, 000m.
* Eamonn Coghlan wins the 5000m gold medal at the World Championships in Helsinki.
Two medals were won this time, one of them being Portugal's third Olympic gold, thanks to Fernanda Ribeiro's surprising victory in the women's 10000m over the 5000m Olympic champion Wang Junxia.
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She won a bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada and a bronze and silver at the 1995 Mar del Plata Pan American Games in the 5000m and 10000m respectively.
He won a bronze medal in the 5000m at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
* 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).
He enhanced this by bribing the German king Henry IV with 360, 000 gold pieces to attack the Normans in Italy, which forced the Normans to concentrate on their defenses at home in 1083 – 1084.
* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.
* 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
The ANC flag is composed of three stripes – black, green and gold.
The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.
Board game with inlays of ivory, rock crystal and glass paste, covered with gold and silver leaf, on a wooden base ( Knossos, Minoan chronology | New Palace period 1600 – 1500 B. C., Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete )
By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.
File: British Museum gold thing 501594 fh000035. jpg | Room 51-Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900 – 1600 BC ( one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working )
* 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U. S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
* 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
* 1978 – Maëlle Ricker, Canadian snowboarder, Olympic gold medalist
However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).
Just like the twelve signs of the zodiac represent the whole universe, the twelve gold stars stand for all peoples of Europe – including those who cannot as yet take part.
* 1980 – Michail Mouroutsos, Greek Olympic taekwondo gold medalist
* 1980 – The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
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Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.
The Danish flag at the medal ceremony for the Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit | men's team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
* Matt Orford – Former NRL halfback, 2008 Dally M medal winner, 2008 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles premiership captain
Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.
Judit played board 2 and finished the tournament with the highest score of 12½ – ½ to win the individual gold medal.
However, in the European Teams Championship in Batumi, Georgia, also in January, she won the gold medal playing Board 2, scoring 6½ – 2½.
One major highlight was the recruitment of forward John Longmire in 1989, who topped the club goalkicking over five consecutive seasons ( 1990 – 1994 ) and won the Coleman medal in 1990 with 98 goals.
* 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali ( then Cassius Clay ) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
* 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
Team Canada then lost the bronze medal game 3 – 2 to Finland to finish without a medal.
* November 25 – John Lennon returns his MBE medal to protest the British government's support of the U. S. war in Vietnam.
* May 23 – Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in 1863, as the first African American to have been awarded this medal.
* March 25 – Tarzan the Ape Man opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role ( Weismuller will star in a total of 12 Tarzan films ).
* 1775 – Awarded the Royal Society's Copley medal
Virachand Gandhi ( 1864 – 1901 ) from Mahuva represented Jains at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 and won a silver medal.
* Nicolas Hénard ( 1964 – ), sailor of the Tornado series, double gold medal winner at the Olympics.
Although Public Law 86-209 provides for 20 recipients of the medal per year, it is typical for approximately 12 – 15 accomplished scientists and engineers to receive this distinction each year.
* Ed Hamm ( 1906 – 1982 )-American track and field athlete, who won the gold medal in long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
* Percy Beard – silver medal hurdlist
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