Today in 1938, the birthday of Billy Mills, a Marine veteran, activist AND a runner who won an Olympic gold medal in what’s been called the biggest upset in the history of the Games. Plus: in the 1950s, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a doghouse? 

‘There goes Billy Mills!’ (Indian Country Today)

A Doghouse Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Is Now on Display (Smithsonian)

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