Roger Bannister

On this day, 6 May, in 1954 British athlete Roger Bannister ran the first recorded sub-four minute mile at Iffley Road track in Oxford. Photo: AP

On this day: Roger Bannister runs first sub-4 minute mile – WATCH

On this day, 6 May, in 1954 British athlete Roger Bannister ran the first recorded sub-four minute mile at Iffley Road track in Oxford.

Roger Bannister

On this day, 6 May, in 1954 British athlete Roger Bannister ran the first recorded sub-four minute mile at Iffley Road track in Oxford. Photo: AP

On this day, 6 May, in 1954 British athlete Roger Bannister ran the first recorded sub-four minute mile at Iffley Road track in Oxford.

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Bannister stopped the clock in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.

His record lasted just 46 days.

Roger Bannister died in March 2018 aged 88.

The current mile men’s world record stands at 3:43.13 which was set in Rome in 1999 by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj

Meanwhile, also on this day in history, the hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg exploded and crashed, and psychologist Sigmund Freud and actor-director Orson Welles were born.