When did the following event happen?
African-American runner Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the Berlin Games in Nazi Germany, much to the disapproval of Hitler's theory of Aryan racial superiority and a significant portion of the American public.
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1859
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species describing the modern concept of evolutionary biology.
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