On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens shattered Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda in his own country. When Owens arrived in Germany’s capital, he didn’t waste any time establishing his dominance. The 100-meter dash was Owens’ first event, which he handily won with a time of 9.4 seconds. Ten minutes later, he would go on to win his next event, the long jump. Not only did he win, but he set a new world record with an 8.13-meter-long jump, becoming “the first man to breach the eight-meter mark and breaking the...