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Dick Fosbury

Born: March 6th 1947, Portland, Oregon


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Dick Fosbury is best known as the creator of the "Fosbury Flop" a new way of high jump, up till the point most high jumpers were using the "straddle method," to get over the high jump bar . His method of jumping gained world attention at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City when he not only won the gold medal for high jump he also set a new Olympic record at 2.24 meters (7 feet 4.25 inches). In 1972 just 4 years later in Munich 28 of the 40 competitors in the high jump used the "Fosbury Flop". Today it is the most popular high jumping technique in modern high jumping.





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Alan Greenspan

Born: March 6th 1926 New York City, New York,


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Alan Greenspan is best known as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006, he was originally appointed by President Ronald Reagan and in total served under four US Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. During his term he used his position to manage five major economic events including the "1987 stock market crash", 1997 - 1998 the Asian financial crisis, 2000 dot-com bubble burst and the 2001 September 11 attacks on the United States. The role of Chairman of the Federal Reserve is considered as important to the welfare of a country in times of economic crisis as the President of The United States and are analyzed and dissected by pundits for many years after the events with those who think the decisions were correct or wrong. I will leave others to publish findings and opinions .