Apr 12
Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, and began running his “Marathon of Hope” (April 12, 1980) towards the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, British Columbia, to raise funds across Canada for cancer research.
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