BC 490 -- Battle of Marathon. Messenger-Soldier Pheidippides ran
from Marathon Plains to Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks
over the Persians. According to accounts of the incident, he died
upon delivering his message in Athens.
1599 -- Spanish attck Acoma Pueblo.
1655 -- Calab Cheeshateaumuck is first Native American to graduate
from Harvard College.
1680 -- Pueblo Rebellion pushes
Spanish out of New Mexico, under leadership of Po'pay; Spanish return
in 1693.
1693 -- College of William and Mary chartered in Virginia for the
education of Native Americans.
1864 -- Pawnee men trained as scouts for US Army in Nebraska.
1896 -- First modern Olympic Games. Held in Athens, it included a
"Marathon Race" to commemorate Pheidippides' run, along approximately
the same route. It was won by a Greek runner, Spiridon Louis.
1897 -- First Boston Marathon,
won by John J. McDermott.
1899 -- "Pop" Warner begins his coaching career at Carlisle School,
an institution for higher learning for people of Native American
descent. Warner coached football there for 13 years, during which it
held top respect as a team and produced numerous quality players.
1907 -- Tom Longboat wins Boston
Marathon.
1908 -- Louis Tewanima (Hopi) places ninth in the Olympic
Marathon
1909 -- Louis Tewanima (Hopi) competes in the Boston Marathon
1912 -- Jim Thorpe wins Olympic gold in Olympic Decathelon and
Pentathelon, forced to give them up due to summer stint in semi-pro
baseball.
1912 -- Louis Tewanima (Hopi) wins the silver medal in the Olympic
10,000 meters
1936 -- Ellison Brown wins Boston Marathon,
to be repeated in 1939.
1942-1966 -- Career of renouned ballerina, Marie Tallchief, of the
Osage people.
1964
-- Billy Mills wins gold medal in the 10,000 meter run at the Tokyo
Olympics, setting record time.
1966-1970 -- Steve Gauchupin wins Pike's
Peak Marathon.
1973 -- Posthumously, Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals are reinstated.
1978 -- "Longest Walk" staged by activists, from San Francisco to
Washington DC, to symbolize forced marches of Native American peoples
in the past.
1979-1981 -- Al
Waquie wins Pike's Peak Marathon.
1980 -- Tricentennial Run, commemorating
the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, is run from Taos Pueblo to Hopi Pueblo.
1980 -- Patty Catalano is first American woman to finish a marathon
under 2:30, at New York Marathon.
1994-- First year that Zuni
A:shiwi runners come to Boston to run the Boston Marathon.