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AUGUST 10
1984:Famously barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, competing for the
United Kingdom, and American world champion Mary Decker collide while
running the 3,000 meters at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los
Angeles. The tangle leaves Decker lying on the ground in the track's
infield and 18-year-old Budd, who ultimately finishes seventh, as the
target of angry booing from the spectators. The International Amateur
Athletic Federation rules that Budd was not responsible for tripping
Decker.
1519: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan departs from
Seville, Spain, at the head of a five-ship fleet that will become the
first to circumnavigate the Earth. Magellan will be killed by a poisoned
arrow in the Philippines in April 1521, and only 18 of the original 270
sailors will complete the journey back to Seville on Sept. 8, 1522.
1988: President Ronald Reagan approves the Civil Liberties Act
of 1988, providing reparation payments of about $20,000 to each of the
Japanese Americans forcibly interned or relocated during World War II.
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