Modern Era · North America · Culture
1938
Seabiscuit beats War Admiral
November 1, 1938
In a match race at Pimlico, the undersized Seabiscuit beat Triple Crown winner War Admiral by four lengths as forty thousand people screamed in the stands and forty million Americans listened on radio. In a year of bad news, a horse with crooked knees had given Depression-weary Americans a plain underdog triumph. Newspapers called him the horse of the year.
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Also in 1938 (6 other events on record)
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- Germany annexes Austria · Europe · Politics
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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