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1978Dec, 14

Shedrack Kibet Korir

Shedrack Kibet Korir, Kenyan runner
Shedrack Kibet Korir (born 14 December 1978 in Nandi District) is a Kenyan runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.

He won the bronze medal in the 1500m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka.

He is based at the PACE Sports Management training camp in Kaptagat.

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Events on 1978

  • 11Feb

    Aristotle

    Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
  • 27Apr

    Watergate scandal

    Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
  • 25Jul

    In vitro fertilisation

    Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
  • 22Oct

    Pope John Paul II

    Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
  • 18Nov

    Jim Jones

    In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.