6 May 1954 Posted on May 6, 2016 by Staff Roger Bannister becomes the first runner to go under four minutes for the mile. Famous Words of Inspiration..."It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other." GK Chesterton — Click here for more from GK Chesterton Related posts: 14 September 1954 22 April 1954 23 February 1954 26 April 1954 4 December 1954 23 February 1954 18 February 1954 16 August 1954