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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48665)	6/24/2005 12:51:44 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Wilma Rudolph - "From that day on, people were going to start separating me from that brace, start thinking about me differently, start saying Wilma is a healthy kid, just like the rest of them." Wilma Rudolph, on overcoming her childhood handicap Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, born this day in 1940 in St. Bethlehem, near Clarksville, Tennessee, was the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics. After earning a bronze medal as a member of the 4 ´ 100-metre relay team at the 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia, Rudolph won gold medals in the 100-metre dash, the 200-metre dash, and the 4 ´ 100-metre relay (anchoring the team to a new world record of 44.4 seconds in a semifinal race) at the 1960 Games in Rome. "From that day on, people were going to start separating me from that brace, start thinking about me differently, start saying Wilma is a healthy kid, just like the rest of them." Wilma Rudolph, on overcoming her childhood handicap

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48665)	6/25/2005 1:47:36 AM
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June 25: 1876 - Colonel George Armstrong Custer is killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. 1950 - The Korean War, between the United Nations and North Korean forces, began. 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. 1993 - Kim Campbell was chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and became the first female Prime Minister of Canada. 1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, left 19 U.S. servicemen dead.