What happened with running shoes in 1968?
Just prior to the 1968 Mexico Olympics, Puma release a new spiked running shoe (the ‘Brush Spikes’) that threatened Adidas’s dominance. Adidas paid a lot of money to get them banned.
A pair of the shoes were featured on the TV show, Pawn Stars
The Puma ‘brush spikes’ with 68 spikes
The Tiger Corsair was released. In 1972, it became the Nike Cortez after the partnership between Nike and Onitsuka Tiger finished.
Amy Burfoot wins the 1968 Boston Marathon in 2:22:17 wearing the Onitsuka Tiger Marathon,
What else happened in 1968?
The Vietnam War continues.
The 1968 Winter Olympics are held from February 6–18 in Grenoble, France.
On April 4 Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
On July 13 Influenza A virus subtype H3N2 first recorded in Hong Kong at the beginning of the 1968 flu pandemic.
The BBC television sitcom Dad’s Army is broadcast for the first time in the UK on July 31.
The Mexico Olympic Games are held October 12–27 in Mexico City.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg for their work on describing the structure of transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.
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